[rspec-users] [rspec] Stubbing partials in view specs

[Nick Hoffman]

> Basically, there are two situation.
> 1) I want to check if a function was called and I want to execute the
> function code

I don't think that's possible. Setting a method expectation (Eg:
template.should_receive(:render)) automatically stubs #render.

> 2) I want to check if a function was called and I don't want to
> execute the function code so I used stubbing.

That's how #should_receive works.

> I thought that for the first scenario the solution would be:
> template.should_receive(:render) #only checks if render function was
> called

You're correct that the only thing that's checked is whether or not
#render was called on the "template" object. However, creating that
expectation causes RSpec to stub #render . If you want to confirm
this, call #render , and you'll see that it returns nil. nil is the
default return value for a stubbed method.

> and for the second scenario
> template.stub!(:render) #stub render function
> template.should_receive(:render) #check if render function was called

Mostly! All you need is the call to #should_receive . The call to
#stub! doesn't do anything bad...it just doesn't do anything at all.

Cheers,
Nick