On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Alexey Ilyichev <bluesman.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> David, I got your point, however I find behavior in version 1.3.1
> inconsistent. In my opinion, if I stub a method with a certain parameter
> value, and then call with another value, it should either delegate to
> original method, return nil, or throw an exception.

In RSpec-2 it raises an informative error, so I think this is what we
should do in RSpec-1. Would you like to submit a patch to make it do
that?

> I'd be happy with either
> of these. But what it actually does is delegating to the original method in
> the superclass, which doesn't make sense to me at all. This is what my spec
> results to if I comment out the fix in code:
>
> 1)
> 'stubbing with arguments should call derived class method_missing when args
> differ from what is stubbed and the method is missing' FAILED
> expected: "*b_method_missing*",
>      got: "*a_method_missing*" (using ==)
>
>  Diff:
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> -*b_method_missing*
> +*a_method_missing*
>
> /home/alex/rspec/spec/spec/mocks/stubbing_with_arguments_spec.rb:26:
>
> 2)
> 'stubbing with arguments should call present method when it is defined in
> derived class and args differ from what is stubbed' FAILED
> expected: "*b_present_method*",
>      got: "*a_method_missing*" (using ==)
>
>  Diff:
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> -*b_present_method*
> +*a_method_missing*
>
> /home/alex/rspec/spec/spec/mocks/stubbing_with_arguments_spec.rb:36:
>
> (see
> http://github.com/alexz77/rspec/blob/master/spec/spec/mocks/stubbing_with_arguments_spec.rb
> for the spec code)
> And also, it behaved differently in 1.2.9. My original problem arisen after
> updating to 1.3.1
>
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 3:14 PM, dchelim...@gmail.com <dchelim...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Oct 28, 7:40 am, Alexey Ilyichev <bluesman.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I have made 2 examples for this and I can't figure out how to make both
>> > pass. Take a look please:
>> >
>> > require 'spec_helper'
>> >
>> > describe "Mock" do
>> >   class A
>> >     def self.method_missing(name, *args, &block)
>> >       '*a_method_missing*'
>> >     end
>> >
>> >     def self.present_method(arg)
>> >       '*present_method*'
>> >     end
>> >   end
>> >
>> >   class B < A
>> >     def self.method_missing(name, *args, &block)
>> >       '*b_method_missing*'
>> >     end
>> >   end
>> >
>> >   it 'should call derived class method_missing when args differ from
>> > what is
>> > stubbed' do
>> >     B.stub!(:missing_method).with(1).and_return '*stub*'
>> >     B.missing_method(2).should == '*b_method_missing*'
>> >   end
>> >
>> >   it 'should call present_method when it is defined in parent class and
>> > args
>> > differ from what is stubbed' do
>> >     B.stub!(:present_method).with(1).and_return '*stub*'
>> >     B.present_method(2).should == '*present_method*'
>> >   end
>> > end
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Alexey Ilyichev <bluesman.a...@gmail.com>
>> > Date: Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:44 PM
>> > Subject: Issue with AR::Base descendants with certain argument
>> > To: rspec-us...@rubyforge.org
>> >
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> > I am trying to upgrade rspec-rails to 1.3.3, and one of my specs fails.
>> >
>> > In before :each I stub finder method like this:
>> > Payment.stub!(:find_by_id).with(@payment.id.to_s).and_return @payment
>> > Payment class is derived from AR::Base
>> >
>> > And then in one of the examples I call Payment.find_by_id((@payment.id +
>> > 1).to_s), and I am expecting it to return null, as it used to with 1.2.9
>> > version, however it leads to an exception in active_record/base.rb.
>> > Analyzing the stack trace I figured that in line 115 of mock/proxy.rb
>> > method
>> > find_by_id is called for ActiveRecord::Base, which is not correct.
>> >
>> > I'm not familiar with rspec internals, so I don't have an idea on where
>> > in
>> > code the actual problem is. So any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> The expected behaviour is that when you stub or mock a method on a
>> real object (we call this partial stubbing/mocking), the framework
>> takes over that method for the duration of the example. So the
>> expectation that when the wrong args are received the call is
>> delegated to the original object is incorrect, and making this change
>> would introduce potential problems for other users who count on this
>> behaviour.
>>
>> There is a request to add an explicit way to call to the original in
>> rspec-mocks-2's issue tracker:
>> http://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues#issue/23.
>>
>> HTH,
>> David
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