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

[Ashley Moran]

On Jul 13, 2008, at 5:03 pm, Sven Fuchs wrote:

> Hey Ashley!
>
> How's things? :)

Good thanks, just sadly not spent much time using RSpec lately...

Spam me off list if you want to catch up!


> Wow, yes.
>
> This also uses the block passed to should_receive, but in a nicer  
> way than my inital attemp which is a bit chatty.
>
> It'd look a bit odd when I want to specify the order for a bunch of  
> methods, but actually I don't need to do that here.
>
> Again, this really should be documented. I even started digging into  
> the RSpec source, but obviously lacked the creativity for this :)

I remember posting about this a long time ago.  I think it was Aslak  
that replied.  I'd prefer a neater syntax for ordered expectations  
across mocks.  Not too long ago I was working on my database migration  
tool that has to turn a graph of migrations into a linear sequence  
before it can apply them, and obviously the order is essential.  But  
the specs look something like...

   migration_1.should_receive(:apply) do
     migration_2.should_receive(:apply) do
       migration_3.should_receive(:apply) do
         migration_4.should_receive(:apply) do
           ...

which is a bit hideous.

I'd prefer something like

   migration_1.should_receive(:apply)
    
migration_2.should_receive(:apply).after(migration_2.receives(:apply))
   ...

but I guess that would complicate the implementation.

As it's a relatively uncommon thing I think probably just documenting  
it is ok for now.

Ashley


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