Well, he's basically got a conditional somewhere:
if foo.baz
else
end
..and he wants to use a proxy object as the return value of 'baz'
instead of nil.
Unfortunately, MRI just won't let you do that, so he needs to set
different expectations.
That's my understanding of the question, at least.
--Wilson.
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 1:49 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 11, 2011, at 8:38 PM, David Zhang wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering how you tell RSpec to ignore null objects entirely.
>> For instance, I have this restaurant_id call below:
>>
>> def create
>> @meal = Meal.new(params[:meal])
>> @meal.restaurant_id = current_user.restaurant_id # automatically decide
>> the restaurant-meal relationship
>> if @meal.save
>> flash[:notice] = "The meal was saved successfully."
>> redirect_to :action => :index
>> else
>> render :action => :new
>> end
>> end
>>
>> ...and I'm not sure how to deal with it. My spec test looks like this right
>> now:
>>
>> describe "POST create" do
>> let(:meal) { mock_model(Meal).as_null_object }
>>
>> before(:each) do
>> Meal.stub(:new).and_return(meal)
>> # meal.stub(:restaurant_id) Not sure what to do here!!!!!!!!
>> end
>>
>> it "creates a new meal" do
>> Meal.should_receive(:new).with("name" => "Pizza").and_return(meal)
>> post :create, :meal => { "name" => "Pizza" }
>> end
>>
>> context "when the meal saves successfully" do
>> before(:each) do # just for balance; as_null_object causes a truthy
>> value to be returned anyway
>> meal.stub(:save).and_return(true)
>> end
>>
>> it "sets a flash message" do
>> post :create
>> flash[:notice].should eq("The meal was saved successfully.")
>> end
>>
>> it "redirects to the meals index" do
>> post :create
>> response.should redirect_to(:action => :index)
>> end
>> end
>>
>> context "when the meal fails to save" do
>> before(:each) do
>> meal.stub(:save).and_return(false)
>> end
>>
>> it "assigns @meal" do
>> post :create
>> assigns[:meal].should eq(meal)
>> end
>>
>> it "renders the new template" do
>> post :create
>> response.should render_template("new")
>> end
>> end
>>
>> end
>>
>> If anyone knows the best way to deal with this, please let me know. I
>> really want to adeptly use RSpec in the future.
>
> What's the failure message you're getting?
>
>
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