rspec users - Apr 2010 - Mocking question

Hi,

I am working on creating something that will monitor some files and do
something when they are changed. I am using FSSM for the actual
monitoring. Now I want to verify that it gets initialized with the
correct parameters:

@monitor.path path do
    glob = filter
end

So below is my mock setup:

def setup_monitor_mock
  mock_monitor = mock(''monitor'')
  #mock_monitor.should_receive(:path).with(".")

  FSSM::Monitor.stub!(:new).and_return(mock_monitor)

  mock_monitor
end

But the problem is that I don''t know how to verify the values for path
and filter that are used to setup the monitor are correct. I saw some
older posts about the same topic, but I couldn''t find something
definitive.

I hope I explained myself correctly.

-Mark

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Mark Nijhof
<Mark.Nijhof at cre8ivethought.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on creating something that will monitor some files and do
> something when they are changed. I am using FSSM for the actual
> monitoring. Now I want to verify that it gets initialized with the
> correct parameters:
>
> @monitor.path path do
> ? ?glob = filter
> end
>
> So below is my mock setup:
>
> def setup_monitor_mock
> ?mock_monitor = mock(''monitor'')
> ?#mock_monitor.should_receive(:path).with(".")
>
> ?FSSM::Monitor.stub!(:new).and_return(mock_monitor)
>
> ?mock_monitor
> end
>
> But the problem is that I don''t know how to verify the values for
path
> and filter that are used to setup the monitor are correct. I saw some
> older posts about the same topic, but I couldn''t find something
> definitive.
>
> I hope I explained myself correctly.
I wouldn''t use a mock for this. Take a look at FSSM''s own
specs:
http://github.com/ttilley/fssm/blob/master/spec/path_spec.rb. They
just query the monitor object to make sure it''s configured correctly.
I''d do something like that in this case.

HTH,
David