[rspec-users] Expecting arbitrary method calls in a particular order

[David Chelimsky]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Pat Maddox <pergesu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Sven Fuchs <svenfuchs at artweb-design.de> wrote:
>> I've been wondering how to expect arbitrary methods being called in a
>> particular order. The RSpec documentation for expecting method calls on mock
>> objects mentions that it is possible to pass a block to #should_receive, but
>> does not mention that it can be used to track the method call order pretty
>> easily:
>>
>> http://www.artweb-design.de/2008/7/13/expecting-arbitrary-method-calls-in-a-particular-order-in-rspec
>>
>> Is there a better way of doing this?
>>
>> If not, do you think it would make sense to add this to the RSpec docs?
>> http://rspec.info/documentation/mocks/message_expectations.html
>
> Hey Sven,
>
> Mock objects have an optional notion of ordering.  Check out the following spec:
>
> describe "a mock object" do
>  it "should expect ordered messages" do
>    foo = mock("ordered mock")
>    foo.should_receive(:first).ordered
>    foo.should_receive(:second).ordered
>    foo.should_receive(:third).ordered
>
>    foo.first
>    foo.second
>    foo.third
>  end
> end
>
> Changing the order in which they're called will raise an ExpectationNotMetError.

Sven, FYI - this is explained on the page you mentioned:
http://rspec.info/documentation/mocks/message_expectations.html

Cheers,
David

>
> Pat
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