On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Matt Wynne <m...@mattwynne.net> wrote:
>
> On 4 Mar 2011, at 05:45, Hedge Hog wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm struggling with something that seems to be simple, and I've not
>> had any joy following the RSpec books suggestions (p. 187).
>> I'd like to test that a method raises and error when a file is not found.
>> I've tried adding this in my example just before I call my method, but
>> it never seems to get invoked.
>> Pathname.stub(:exist?).and_return(false)
>
> That's stubbing a class method.
>
> exist? is an instance method so you need to stub the specific instance of
> pathname that's being used in your object-under-test, rather than the
> Pathname class.
>
Is there a (clean) way to intercept this instance and add the
stub/mock to it? What I see in the Rspec books suggests I'd have to
force the Pathname instance to the surface, as some method argument.
That feels all wrong - to have to change my method's interface just to
test a behavior.
Appreciate any experience, comments or suggestions people may have.
>>
>> The whole example:
>>
>> it "should raise an error if RVM's install root does not exist" do
>> Pathname.stub(:exist?).and_return(false)
>> lambda{ B3::Bdd::Helpers.rvm_path}.should
>> raise_error(RuntimeError, "File not found:")
>> end
>>
>> Appreciate any tips.
>>
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> cheers,
> Matt
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