[rspec-users] Can I construct the controller myself in a controller spec?

[David Chelimsky]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Perryn Fowler <pezlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am experimenting with Constructor based dependency injection for
> rails controllers.
>
> So I have something like this
>
> class LoginSessionsController < ApplicationController
>
>  def initialize(authenticator =  TheRealAuthenticator)
>    @authenticator = authenticator
>  end
>
>  ....
> end
>
>
> The plan was to override the authenticator used when testing with something like
>
> describe LoginSessionsController.new(MyMockAuthenticator) do
>   ......
> end
>
> but rspec seems to insist on constructing the controller itself

No, Rails insists upon constructing the controller itself. rspec-rails
just wraps rails' testing framework. I'd much rather be constructing
the objects myself.

As for DI, there is a wealth of discussion about DI in Ruby in various
user lists - general consensus is don't do it. I concur. You don't
need it. You might be particularly interested in
http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/recovering-from-enterprise.html, in
which Jamis Buck, who authored a DI library for Ruby named needle,
explains why that was unnecessary.

But even if you disagree, you're kinda stuck here because Rails wants
to construct the controllers for us.

HTH,
David

>
> Is there a way to do this I am missing?
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