That'll learn ya to use Mocha over rSpec ;)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Giuseppe Bertini <<a href="mailto:lists@ruby-forum.com">lists@ruby-forum.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> catch any dependencies your tests may have on each other<br>
> in order to reveal brittle tests.<br>
<br>
</div>Following Ben's hint, I took out examples from the controller spec until<br>
I isolated the culprit.<br>
<br>
Briefly, I am switching from RSpec's built in mocking framework to Mocha<br>
and fixture_scenarios when necessary. I had forgotten to modify one of<br>
the examples, which still had this construct:<br>
<br>
object.should_receive(:method).and_return(:a_mock)<br>
<br>
instead of Mocha's:<br>
<br>
object.expects(:method).returns(:a_mock)<br>
<br>
So I have empirically learned that enabling<br>
<br>
config.mock_with :mocha<br>
<br>
in /spec/spec_helper.rb and then mixing Mocha with RSpec's own<br>
mocking/stubbing messes things up in a nasty way, in the sense that<br>
failures occur all over the place with error messages that did not help<br>
me finding the bug.<br>
And again, these errors were not raised by TextMate's environment.<br>
Tricky.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks for the feedback!<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">Giuseppe<br>
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