I have a Book Model which is a ruby script that assigns prices to certain predefined Book titles mentioned in the program. Here's how the book model looks:-
class Book attr_accessor :books def initialize books puts "Welcome to setting book price program" @books = books end def get_prices puts "Please enter appropriate price for each book item:-" count = 0 @books = @books.inject({}) { |hash, book| print "#{book.first}: " price = STDIN.gets.chomp while (price !~ /^[1-9]\d*$/ && price != "second hand") puts "Price can't be 0 or a negative integer or in decimal format or alphanumeric. \nPlease input appropriate price in integer" price = STDIN.gets.chomp #gets.chomp - throws error end price == "second hand" ? price = "100" : price #takes a default price hash[book.first] = price.to_i hash } end end books = {"The Last Samurai" => nil, "Ruby Cookbook" => nil, "Rails Recipes" => nil, "Agile Development with Rails" => nil, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" => nil} book_details = Book.new(books) book_details.get_prices puts "\n*******Books Details:#{book_details.books}******\n" I'm trying to write a test case that checks for correct input of price for each book item. If the price is entered inappropriately, it should ask the user to re enter the price correctly. The program does this fine. But I'm facing difficulties when I'm trying to mock this behavior using RSpec. require 'spec_helper' describe Book do before :each do books = {"The Last Samurai" => nil, "Ruby Cookbook" => nil, "Rails Recipes" => nil, "Agile Development with Rails" => nil, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" => nil} @book = Book.new(books) end describe "#new" do it "Should be an instance of the Book" do @book.should be_an_instance_of Book end end describe "#getprice" do it "Should get the price in the correct format or else return appropriate error" do puts "\n************************************************************************\n" book_obj = @book STDOUT.should_receive(:puts).and_return("Welcome to setting book price program") book_obj.get_prices.should_not be_nil book_obj.books["The Last Samurai"].stub!(:gets) {"40"} #trying to set the value for one book using Hash book_obj.books["The Last Samurai"].should == 40 #verifying the value set for a particular key is accurate end end end You can even clone this code(https://github.com/boddhisattva/book) from Github to try this from your end. I'm using Ruby 1.9.3 and rspec 2.11.0. I've also attached all the required ruby scripts in this forum post to test this. The error that I'm getting currently is:- Failures: 1) Book#getprice Should get the price in the correct format or else return appropriate error Failure/Error: book_obj.books["The Last Samurai"].stub!(:gets) {"40"} #trying to set the value for one book using Hash TypeError: can't define singleton # ./spec/book_spec.rb:31:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>' Finished in 7.61 seconds 2 examples, 1 failure Failed examples: rspec ./spec/book_spec.rb:21 # Book#getprice Should get the price in the correct format or else return appropriate error I would really appreciate any guidance how to get this right. Thank you. Attachments: http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/8625/book.rb http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/8626/book_spec.rb http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/8627/spec_helper.rb -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users