[rspec-users] mocking successive return values

[Doug Bryant]

Thanks Ben.  I appreciate it.
Doug

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Ben Mabey <ben at benmabey.com> wrote:

> Doug Bryant wrote:
> > I'm having a problems mocking successive return values.  I don't know
> > if I'm doing something wrong or if this is a limitation of rspec
> > mocks.  Any ideas of what I may be doing wrong?
> >
> >
> > For the test, I simply lookup 3 existing quote numbers, append nil to
> > the end (for a total of 4)
> > ## The test
> >   it "should not generate a duplicate quote number" do
> >     existing_quote_numbers = Policy.find(:all).map{|p|
> > p.quote_number}[0,3]
> >
> >
> @policy_service.should_receive(:random_string).with(:no_args).exactly(4).times.and_return(existing_quote_numbers.concat([nil]))
> >     @policy_service.generate_quote_number
> >   end
> >
>
> You will need to have one expectation per return.  Try this:
>
>  it "should not generate a duplicate quote number" do
>     #expect
>    Policy.find(:all).map{|p| p.quote_number}[0,3].concat([nil]).each do
> |existing_quote_number|
>
>
> @policy_service.should_receive(:random_string).with(:no_args).once.and_return(existing_quote_number))
>    end
>    #when
>     @policy_service.generate_quote_number
>  end
>
>
>
> -Ben
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