[mocha-developer] Mocking objects to test Rails Controllers

[Rick Moynihan]

Andrew Vit wrote:
> I think Rick was asking how to test from a controller. Assuming that  
> the controller intantiates the Person object so you can't setup with  
> Person.new inside your test, you can do:
> 
>    Person.any_instance.expects(:send_sms)

Thanks for this Andrew.  You were right about what I was asking, but 
Rob's answer gave me enough courage to dive in, and find it pretty much 
just worked as expected.

I had my code mocked and tested (to some degree) within 5 minutes.

Yay Mocha! :-)

R.