On Sep 30, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:45 AM, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sep 30, 2010, at 8:20 AM, Zhi-Qiang Lei wrote: > >>>>> I want to if B is receive 'super' message. Thanks. >>>> >>>> I understand what you meant, but I don't understand why you want to do >>>> this. What is the bigger problem you are trying to solve? Why do you want >>>> to monitor when super gets called? >>> >>> Thank you. Actually what I want is just to write a test case for it, with >>> rspec. >> >> You can not. > > And following up on David's reply, I don't think you should, Lei. > > What you really should be testing that the observable effects of the > call are 'as if' the super call were made. > > If you could test that the super call was made it would be testing > that the implementation were a certain way more than the behavior of > the object, and that's the road to writing brittle tests. > > -- > Rick DeNatale > > Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick > Twitter: @RickDeNatale > WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
In my case, there is already a test case for the method in class A, and its feature is complex. So I was trying to test the super call but observable effect for simple. Anyway, thank you both. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
