I find myself using this pattern quite a bit.
rspec 1.30
ruby 1.9.1, 1.9.2-rc2, jruby 1.51 all on osx 10.6.4
class Foo
def initialize
@bar = Bar.new
end
end
context "init" do
it "should allocate a helper class Bar" do
Bar.should_receive(:new)
Foo.new
end
end
That all works well and as expected. Where I get stuck is when I change the
signature for Bar to accept an argument from Foo like so:
class Foo
def initialize
@bar = Bar.new self
end
end
# try 1
context "init" do
it "should allocate a helper class Bar" do
Bar.should_receive(:new).with(self) # self refers to rspec here
Foo.new
end
end
# try 2
context "init" do
let(:foo) { Foo.new }
it "should allocate a helper class Bar" do
Bar.should_receive(:new).with(foo) # foo is a different instance
Foo.new
end
end
# try 3
context "init" do
it "should allocate a helper class Bar" do
Bar.should_receive(:new).with(instance_of(Foo)) # works but seems wrong
Foo.new
end
end
I have tried lots of techniques for setting an argument expectation in my spec,
but none of them work completely. How do others solve this? Or have I
discovered a spec anti-pattern?
If this is an anti-pattern, what is the suggested programming technique to
avoid it?
cr
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