[rspec-users] getting output of STDOUT in spec

[Tim Lucas]

On 11/04/2007, at 1:23 AM, Ashley Moran wrote:

> Aha - this gives me an idea about the dreaded "current-time" problem
>
> def do_something(time_factory=Time)
>    time = time_factory.new
>    # ...
> end
>
> Actually I suppose it works for any class.  Why didn't I think of
> that before?  It's so simple!

Usually I just have "today" or "now" as a parameter:

def do_something(now=Time.now)
   # ...
end

def do_something(today=Date.today)
   # ...
end

Though there's no reason you couldn't mock those two method calls...

-- tim