[rspec-users] RSpec exactly behavior (it doesn't exactly fail)

[Bas Vodde]

Hiya,

Kewl, thanks!

(To be honest, I was a bit disapointed as I was thinking of doing it myself and sending it to you :P)

Anyways, much appreciated!

Bas

On 16-Apr-2012, at 10:14 AM, David Chelimsky wrote:

> Actually I just went ahead and fixed it sans-bug report: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/commit/fb9c76c2e40b4b25f4dcc5de95f8c60319b6d9c1. It'll be fixed in the next release (2.10).
> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
> -- 
> David Chelimsky
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> 
> On Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 4:48 PM, David Chelimsky wrote:
> 
>> On Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Bas Vodde wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hiya all,
>>> 
>>> I've got a quick question related to RSpec. I was test-driving some code and ended up in an endless loop. I was surprised by this, but traced it down to the mock not failing on additional calls but only in the end. Let me explain.
>>> 
>>> I was writing code like this:
>>> 
>>> subject.wrapper.should_receive(:window_list).exactly(4).times.and_return {
>>> counter = counter + 1
>>> counter >= 4 ? [ "new window" ] : []
>>> }
>>> 
>>> The idea was that it would call the code-block 4 times exactly and then return a new value (and thus stop calling it). As the code to implement wasn't there yet, it led to a recursive call. I had expected RSpec to stop after 4 calls though, as I had instructed the mock that I expected exactly 4 calls.
>>> 
>>> I added a new test in RSpec itself in precision_counts_spec.rb:
>>> 
>>> it "fails when a method is called more than n times, but fails within the method call" do
>>> @mock.should_receive(:random_call).exactly(1).times
>>> lambda do
>>> @mock.random_call
>>> @mock.random_call
>>> end.should raise_error(RSpec::Mocks::MockExpectationError)
>>> end
>>> 
>>> which failed :( (or it failed to fail and therefore failed!)
>>> 
>>> It would be nice if it would fail. Is there any reason for not failing already at this point in time?
>>> 
>>> (I'm using RSpec 2.6-0. I quickly browsed the latest and didn't see this changed)
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Bas
>> There is no philosophical reason for this to happen, and there are other types of failures that do fail-fast (e.g. obj.should_receive(:bar).with(1,2) fails immediately if it receives :bar with any other args).
>> 
>> Please submit this to https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues and I'll start looking into a fix.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> David
> 
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