[rspec-users] mocking methods in the controller.

[Daniel N]

On 7/6/07, Daniel N <has.sox at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
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> On 7/6/07, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/5/07, Daniel N <has.sox at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm very new to rspec so please be patient with me.
> > >
> > > I've tried to take some of my tests out of the controller specs to
> > check for
> > > things that are rendered.
> > >
> > > This has not worked so well, since my views have the controller method
> > >
> > > current_user
> > >
> > > in quite a few places.
> > >
> > > Is there any way that I can define this so that my views will be
> > executed?
> > > Will this same thing occur for all helper methods that are definied in
> > the
> > > controller?
> >
> > If I understand you correctly, you are trying to take tests for views
> > that were previously rails functional tests and turn them into rspec
> > view examples. If that is the case, you should be able to do this:
> >
> > template.stub!(:current_user).and_return(mock_model(User))
> >
> > If not, please provide an explicit example so we can better understand
> > what you're talking about.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > David
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>
>
> Thanx David,
>
> That looks like what I was looking for.
>
> I will try it when I get home.
>
> Cheers
> Daniel
>

Ok I've started to have a crack at this but it's getting way out of hand.
Everytime I stub a method there's another one to do.

I've also found that when there's a partial _detail and I've passed the
:collection => @things to it it blows up complaining that the local variable
is nil in
dom_id( detail )

Am I doing someting wrong?  The start of my specs is

  before do
    @u = mock_model( User )
    @book = mock_model( Book )

    public_book = mock_model( Book )
    private_book = mock_model( Book )
    public_book.stub!(:title=).and_return( "Public Title" )
    private_book.stub!(:title=).and_return( "Private Title" )
    public_book.stub!( :title ).and_return( "Public Title" )
    private_book.stub!( :title ).and_return( "Private Title" )

    @u.stub!( :public_books ).and_return( [public_book] )
    @u.stub!( :private_books ).and_return( [private_book] )
    @clip = mock_model( Clip )
    @clip.stub!( :id ).and_return( 1 )
    @clips = [ @clip ]

    template.stub!( :current_user ).and_return( @u )
  end

and I've only started.  Is it normal to have to stub this much for a view?

Cheers
Daniel
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