[rspec-users] how can this pass?

[aslak hellesoy]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Sergio Bayona <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> how could this test pass?
>
> I have:
>
> class PropertiesController < ApplicationController
>  def show
>    @property = Property.non_existing_method #causes a method missing
> error
>  end
> end
>
>
> describe PropertiesController do
>  def mock_property(stubs={})
>      @mock_property ||= mock_model(Property, stubs)
>  end
>
>  describe "responding to GET show" do
>    it "should expose the requested property as @property" do
>        Property.should_receive(:non_existing_method).and_return(mock_property)
>        get :show, :id => "37"
>        assigns[:property].should equal(mock_property)
>    end
>  end
> end
>
> SB-MacBook-Pro:test sb$ ruby
> ./spec/controllers/properties_controller_spec.rb
> .
>
> Finished in 0.134667 seconds
>
> 1 example, 0 failures
>
>
> why zero failures? more specifically, why would :non_existing_method
> return mock_property?

Because you have stubbed the class method Property#non_existing_method with:
  Property.should_receive(:non_existing_method).and_return(mock_property)

It doesn't make any difference whether this method is already defined
or not. Once the stub is set up, calls to the stubbed method will
return what you told it to return.

> and why would the assigns[:property] be equal to
> mock_property?

Because your controller's #show method assigns @property with the
value returned from Property#non_existing_method (which you stubbed).

> did I eat some bad mushrooms?
>

That I don't know. Why do you think this behaviour is strange/hallucinating?

Aslak

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