I solved the problem by using save and partial updates in rails 2.1
instead of update_attributes. Very strange thing!
On Sep 20, 8:52 pm, Olaf Spaarmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> my name is Olaf, I'm living in Berlin and this is my first post. I'm
> quite new to rpsec, so please forgive my Newbieness! I've a problem
> stubbing a simple update action in a controller. I use a little hack to
> stub AR associations. So I added to my rspec_helper.rb the following code:
>
> --------
>
> # Stubbing Associations
> module Spec
> module Mocks
> module Methods
> def stub_association!(association_name, methods_to_be_stubbed =
> {})
> mock_association = Spec::Mocks::Mock.new(association_name.to_s)
> methods_to_be_stubbed.each do |method, return_value|
> mock_association.stub!(method).and_return(return_value)
> end
> self.stub!(association_name).and_return(mock_association)
> end
> end
> end
> end
>
> --------
>
> No I want to test the following action in my controller:
>
> --------
>
> def update
> @profilecategory = @user.profilecategories.find(params[:id])
> respond_to do |format|
> if @profilecategory.update_attributes(params[:profilecategory])
> flash[:notice] = _('Category was successfully updated.')
> format.html { render :action => "index" }
> format.js
> else
> format.html { render :action => "edit" }
> format.js
> end
> end
> end
>
> -------
>
> This is my Rspce code for doing so:
>
> -------
> describe ProfilecategoriesController do
> before(:each) do
> @current_user = mock_model(User)
> @profilecategory = mock_model(Profilecategory)
> @current_user.stub_association!(:profilecategories, :build =>
> @profilecategory,
> :find => @profilecategory)
> @user = @current_user
> controller.stub!(:current_user).and_return(@current_user)
> end
>
> describe "handling PUT /profilecategories/3 with successfull save" do
> it_should_behave_like "the user is logged in"
>
> before(:each) do
> @profilecategory.stub!(:update_attributes).and_return(true)
> end
>
> def do_put
> put :update, :id => '3', :profilecategory => {:name => 'new name'}
> end
>
> it "should be successfull" do
> do_put
> response.should be_success
> end
>
> it "should find the object" do
>
> @user.profilecategories.should_receive(:find).with('3').and_return(@profilecategory)
> do_put
> end
>
> it "should call the update_attributes function" do
> @profilecategory.should_receive(:uptdate_attributes).with({:name
> => 'new name'}).and_return(true)
> do_put
> end
> end
> end
>
> -------
>
> When I run the rspec file, I always get this error:
>
> ------
>
> should call the update_attributes function
> Mock 'Profilecategory_1034' expected :uptdate_attributes with
> ({:name=>"new name"}) once, but received it 0 times
>
> ------
>
> I don't understand this. My Associations seem to work and when calling
> the update action in the browser, everything works fine.
>
> It would be great, if anyone could help me with that! I don't know, what
> to do!
>
> Best regards,
> Olaf
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