On 5 Mar 2011, at 12:06, Hedge Hog wrote:

> 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.

You could try something like this:

    fake_pathname = double(Pathname, :exist? => false)
    Pathname.stub(:new).and_return(fake_pathname)

This is basically The Ruby Way of doing dependency injection.

> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>> m...@mattwynne.net
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cheers,
Matt

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