[rspec-users] Factories vs. stubs/mocks

[Brennon Bortz]

I am, as usual, assigning an instance variable in a controller's index action to find all instances of a model in the database.  I want to write a spec that checks that this variable is assigned correctly.  I can do:

it "should provide a collection of widgets in @widgets" do
      widget = Widget.create("title" => "my widget")
      get :index
      assigns[:widgets].should include(widget)
end

or:

it "should provide a collection of widgets in @widgets" do
      widget = Factory.create(:widget)
      get :index
      assigns[:widgets].should include(widget)
end

Is there a better way to do this with a mock model, though?

Thanks,

Brennon Bortz
Software Researcher
Dundalk Institute of Technology
brennon.bortz at casala.ie
Ph.D. Researcher & Composer - Sonic Arts Research Centre
Queen's University, Belfast
brennon at brennonbortz.com / bbortz01 at qub.ac.uk

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