[rspec-users] mock_model not stubbing model attribtues in view spec

[David Chelimsky]

On May 20, 2008, at 6:32 AM, Jarkko Laine wrote:

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> On 20.5.2008, at 14.26, Ashley Moran wrote:
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>> On 20 May 2008, at 11:50, Doug Livesey wrote:
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>>> Obviously, the view calls for a number of attributes from the
>>> @input_timesheet, but unless I explicitly define these in the  
>>> mock_model
>>> method, I get the following kind of error:
>>
>>
>> I'm puzzled, I thought you always had to stub methods on a mock  
>> from mock_model?  I don't remember the default behaviour ever being  
>> to ignore unknown messages?
>>
>> Sorry, guess this is not a helpful post, I just wanted to know how  
>> it behaves for you normally.
>
> mock_model doesn't stub any methods automatically, and it doesn't  
> matter whether you're in view, model or controller specs. If you  
> need the attributes and don't want to specify anything by hand,  
> stub_model might work for you. It basically creates a real AR  
> object, with its db connections cut.

FYI - this is only in git right now:

http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec
http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails

git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec.git
git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails.git

Cheers,
David

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