Apologies for not noticing this -- I did search, but I wasn't sure exactly how to phrase it. Thanks for the info, David.
~ jf -- John Feminella Principal Consultant, BitsBuilder LI: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnxf SO: http://stackoverflow.com/users/75170/ On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 16:05, David Chelimsky <dchelim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:32 PM, John Feminella wrote: > >> Right now, #stub stubs a method even if it doesn't exist. Is there a >> way to stub a method on an object, if and only if it already >> #responds_to? that method? It would also be good if it raised an >> ArgumentError or the like. >> >> Example: >> >> # this is how it works now: >> # - stubs the #bar method even if it doesn't exist >> # - always returns 'baz' >> foo.stub(:bar).and_return('baz') >> >> What I'd like is something like this: >> >> # raise ArgumentError unless foo.respond_to? :bar >> # otherwise, behaves as the regular #stub does >> foo.stub!(:bar).and_return('baz') >> >> Thoughts? > > This has come up many times before. Please check out > http://groups.google.com/group/rspec/browse_thread/thread/c344c898c278cd2b > and https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues/15 to see where the > conversation is at this point. > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
