Re: [rspec-users] multiple return values with stub

[Phillip Koebbe]

 On 2010-04-30 11:34 AM, Phillip Koebbe wrote:
 I have a helper method
    def login_as(role)
        user = stub_model(User)
        user.stub(:is_administrator?).and_return(role == :admin)
        User.stub(:find_by_id).and_return(user)
        session[:user_id] = user.id
        user
    end

which has been dandy until yesterday. I am now working on an admin 
controller for user maintenance, and in it, I want to do this:

        before :each do
            login_as(:admin)
            @some_user = stub_model(User, valid_user_hash)
            User.stub(:find_by_id).and_return(@some_user)
        end

which obviously conflicts with the stub in login_as.

I have experimented with adding .with() to each one, hoping that 
multiple stubs would be created, but that does not seem to be the 
case. Is there a way to stub the same method but have it return 
different values? Or can someone suggest a better way of handling this 
situation?


To answer my own question, I discovered I could stub @controller in 
login_as:

@controller.stub(:current_user).and_return(user)

which works. Can anyone think of a reason I would not want to do that?

Peace,
Phillip
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