[rspec-users] How to test the assignment of current_user

[Marcelo de Moraes Serpa]

Hello,

This could be rephrased as  -- How to test calls of special assigment
(setter) methods?

I am trying to test the assigmnet of a user object to the
current_user=(new_user) method. It is part of an authentication process and
finally the object is assigned to the session through this method. I have
tried:

controller.should_receive(:current_user=).with(@user)
post :create, @params

And the output is:

expected :current_user= with (#<User id: 605 <.... snip ...> ) once, but
received it 0 times

I do not understand, since current_user=(new_user) is actually being called
by the controller:

def create
 <snip>
 current_user = @user
 <snip>
end

Why's that?

Thanks,

Marcelo.
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