I used to do the following when I used rspec mocks.
user = mock_model(User)
find_method = User.method(:find)
User.stub!(:find).at_least(1).and_return do |id|
if id == mock_user.id.to_s
user
else
find_method.call(id) # May need to instance_eval here, but I
think .call is sufficient.
end
end
In fact this sort of inspired me to mock.proxy method call. Of course YMMV :-)
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:29 PM, drewB <dbats...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For anyone who might come across this message looking for a solution
> to the same problem, I wrote the following function to take care of it
> (http://gist.github.com/352449)
>
> def stub_find_for_specific_values(model, stubs)
> model.stub!(:find).at_least(1).and_return do |id|
> if stubs.has_key? id
> stubs[id]
> else
> model.find_by_id(id)
> end
> end
> end
>
> #example below will return the mock_user if its id is search for
> otherwise find will search as normal
> mock_user = mock_model(User)
> stub_find_for_specific_values(User, mock_user.id => mock_user)
>
> On Apr 1, 3:12 pm, drewB <dbats...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> David, thanks for your response.
>>
>> Matt, I totally hear you. In this contrived example, you probably
>> could but in the project I am working on it would be very difficult.
>> One of the challenges of joining a project already in progress...
>>
>> On Apr 1, 1:45 pm, Matt Wynne <m...@mattwynne.net> wrote:
>>
>> > On 1 Apr 2010, at 21:35, David Chelimsky wrote:
>>
>> > > On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:14 PM, drewB wrote:
>>
>> > >> Occasionally, I find myself in a situation where I want to have a
>> > >> mock
>> > >> obj returned if a method is called with a particular argument but
>> > >> handled normally otherwise. For example, lets say I have a Model
>> > >> named User and I am specing a controller that sends messages from one
>> > >> user to another. When User.find is called for the user who is making
>> > >> the request I want it to run normally but when User.find is called
>> > >> for
>> > >> the receiver I want it to return a mocked obj. In this case, I can
>> > >> do
>> > >> something like (http://gist.github.com/352305):
>>
>> > >> user = mock_model(User)
>> > >> User.stub!(:find).at_least(1).and_return do |id|
>> > >> if id == mock_user.id.to_s
>> > >> user
>> > >> else
>> > >> User.find_by_id(id)
>> > >> end
>> > >> end
>>
>> > >> If I didn't have another method that allowed me to find a User by
>> > >> it's
>> > >> id this won't work.
>>
>> > >> Is there an easier way to accomplish this?
>>
>> > > Not really. When you stub a method, the framework overrides that
>> > > method with its own implementation. There's no mechanism in place to
>> > > say "pass the message onto the real object if it doesn't have the
>> > > arguments I'm interested in." I'm not sure of any framework that
>> > > does that. Maybe RR, but I'm not sure.
>>
>> > > Good luck.
>> > > David
>>
>> > I can't help but chime in here that I would be pretty irritated to
>> > come across a test that mixed up using mocks and real objects,
>> > especially when they're the same class. Can you not use a mock for the
>> > other instance of User too?
>>
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>> > Matt
>>
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