[rspec-users] Stub a call that happens inside a block

[Marcelo de Moraes Serpa]

Yeah, thanks David :)

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:13 PM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <
> celoserpa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I had a hard time to find out a way to mock the singleton feed method of
>> the following class:
>> class RssReader
>>
>>   def self.feed(feed_url)
>>     output = []
>>     open(feed_url) do |http|
>>       response = http.read
>>       result = RSS::Parser.parse(response, false)
>>       result.items.each_with_index do |item, i|
>>         output << {:title => item.title, :description => item.description,
>> :pubDate => item.pubDate, :link => item.link}
>>       end unless result.nil?
>>     end
>>     output
>>   end
>> end
>>
>>
> Try this:
>
> describe "..." do
>   it "..." do
>     http = mock('http')
>     RssReader.should_receive(:open).with('http://this.url')and_yield(http)
>     http.should_receive(:read) ....
>     ...
>     RssReader.feed('http://this.url')
>   end
> end
>
> Make sense?
>
> David
>
>
>> Since it is being passed a block, I could not intercept the code inside
>> the block, the specific code I'd like to stub is the http.read. I have tried
>> to do:
>>
>> Http.should_receive(:read).and_return(xml) #xml being a fixture, loaded
>> from a file.
>>
>> However, the stub is not applied.
>>
>> Any ideas on how this could be solved? The only way I could think is to
>> avoid using the block...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Marcelo.
>>
>>
>>
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