[mocha-developer] Mocking system/`

[Frederick Cheung]

On 11 Jun 2007, at 23:19, Kevin Clark wrote:

> This drives me insane on a regular basis. How does one mock
> system('blah') or `blah` ?
>
> Adding expectations on Kernel doesn't do it. Adding expectations on
> Object just makes me sad:
>
> Object.any_instance.expects(:system).with('ls')
>   # => #<Mock:0x12b584e>.system('ls') - expected calls: 0, actual  
> calls: 1
>
> And this really shouldn't work (and doesn't):
>
> Object.expects(:system).with('ls')
>   # => #<Mock:0x12f287a>.system('ls') - expected calls: 1, actual  
> calls: 0
>
> Anyone have a trick they like?

system etc... are in a module that is included most places, so if we  
have

class Foo
   def my_method_calling_system
     system('echo "hello world"')
   end
end

Then you need to do something like

f = Foo.new
f.expects(:system).
f.my_method_calling_system


I would have expected Object.any_instance.expects(:system) to work  
but a cursory attempt suggests it doesn;t

Fred