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Pito Salas

2007-Nov-28 00:58 UTC

[rspec-users] Newbie question

I installed Rspec and am getting the following failure:

$ sudo gem install rspec
Successfully installed rspec-1.0.8
Installing ri documentation for rspec-1.0.8...
Installing RDoc documentation for rspec-1.0.8...

$ spec -v
RSpec-1.0.8 (r2338) - BDD for Ruby
http://rspec.rubyforge.org/

$ cat acct.rb
describe Account, " when first created" do
   it "should have a balance of $0" do
     ...
   end
end
$ spec acct.rb
/opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/runner/ 
behaviour_runner.rb:106:in `load'': ./acct.rb:3: syntax error,  
unexpected tDOT3 (SyntaxError)
         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/ 
runner/behaviour_runner.rb:106:in `load_specs''
         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/ 
runner/behaviour_runner.rb:105:in `each''
         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/ 
runner/behaviour_runner.rb:105:in `load_specs''
         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/ 
runner/behaviour_runner.rb:49:in `prepare!''
         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/ 
runner/behaviour_runner.rb:19:in `run''
         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/ 
runner/command_line.rb:17:in `run''
         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/bin/spec:3
         from /opt/local/bin/spec:16:in `load''
         from /opt/local/bin/spec:16

Must be a version or other config problem. Can anyone point me in the  
right direction?

Thanks,

Pito

Daniel N

2007-Nov-28 01:02 UTC

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On Nov 28, 2007 11:58 AM, Pito Salas <rps at salas.com> wrote:
> I installed Rspec and am getting the following failure:
>
> $ sudo gem install rspec
> Successfully installed rspec-1.0.8
> Installing ri documentation for rspec-1.0.8...
> Installing RDoc documentation for rspec-1.0.8...
>
> $ spec -v
> RSpec-1.0.8 (r2338) - BDD for Ruby
> http://rspec.rubyforge.org/
>
> $ cat acct.rb
> describe Account, " when first created" do
>   it "should have a balance of $0" do
>     ...
>   end
> end
> $ spec acct.rb
> /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/runner/
> behaviour_runner.rb:106:in `load'': ./acct.rb:3: syntax error,
> unexpected tDOT3 (SyntaxError)
>         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/
> runner/behaviour_runner.rb:106:in `load_specs''
>         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/
> runner/behaviour_runner.rb:105:in `each''
>         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/
> runner/behaviour_runner.rb:105:in `load_specs''
>         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/
> runner/behaviour_runner.rb:49:in `prepare!''
>         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/
> runner/behaviour_runner.rb:19:in `run''
>         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/lib/spec/
> runner/command_line.rb:17:in `run''
>         from /opt/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rspec-1.0.8/bin/spec:3
>         from /opt/local/bin/spec:16:in `load''
>         from /opt/local/bin/spec:16
>
> Must be a version or other config problem. Can anyone point me in the
> right direction?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pito
>
>
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it''s saying you have a syntax error..  Can you post your whole file?
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Pito Salas

2007-Nov-28 01:33 UTC

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That *was* the whole file. And I think therein lies the problem.

I didn''t realize that I needed a class def for Acct. So this, now,
works:


class Account
end

describe Account, " when first created" do
  it "should have a balance of $0" do
  end
end

(as I said: newbie :)

Thanks!

Pito

Pat Maddox

2007-Nov-28 02:05 UTC

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On 11/27/07, Pito Salas <rps at salas.com> wrote:> That *was* the whole file. And I think therein lies the problem.
Wait, so your file had "..." in it?  Yes, that would indeed be a
syntax error.

Pat

Andy Goundry

2007-Dec-04 15:41 UTC

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Good day all :-)

I am getting into RSpec and am a little confused by an aspect of mocks /
mock_models in controller tests. I''ve gone through the online docs and
the
PeepCode movies and have them slightly contradictory on this matter. I hope
you can clarify. Many thanks in advance :-)

I''m writing a system that uses the restful authentication plugin and am
writing a test for the following controller create method:

class AccountsController < ApplicationController
  def create
    @account = Account.new(params[:account])
    if @account.save!
      self.current_account = @account
      redirect_back_or_default(''/'')
      flash[:notice] = "Thanks for signing up!"
    end
    rescue ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid
      render :action => ''new''
  end
...
end

I''ve created the following spec test to simply ensure that the Account
model
receives a call to :new, but the spec is failing as it also receives a call
to :save! and it isn''t expecting it. I am using "@account
mock_model(Account)". If i replace this with "@account =
mock(''account'',
:null_object => true)" the test passes, but i''m not sure
that''s really what
i want. I''m pretty sure i need to us mock_model in this instance.

The code is below.

Also, are my use of comment blocks within the spec against the RSpec *way*.
I appreciate that this isn''t using fixtures and i might use them later.
I
also appreciate that i can write modules to contain these methods, but i
can''t quite see the point in muddying things. Comments most welcome.

Thanks

describe AccountsController, "allows users to create only valid
accounts" do

  #######
  ### Reusable methods
  #######

    def do_post(params = nil)
      post :create, :account => params
    end

    def valid_account_form_details
      { :password => "password", :password_confirmation =>
"password",
:login => "new_login", :email => "test at test.com" }
    end

  #######
  ### Before block
  #######

    before do
      @account = mock_model(Account)
      Account.stub!(:new).and_return(@account)
    end

  #######
  ### It Statements
  #######

    it "should display the new account template when the user visits
/accounts/new" do
      get ''new''
      response.should render_template(:new)
    end

    it "should tell the Account model to create a new account on form
POST"
do
      Account.should_receive(:new).with(:anything).and_return(@account)
      do_post
    end
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Tom Stuart

2007-Dec-04 15:58 UTC

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On 4 Dec 2007, at 15:41, Andy Goundry wrote:> I''ve created the following spec test to simply ensure that the  
> Account model receives a call to :new, but the spec is failing as it  
> also receives a call to :save! and it isn''t expecting it. I am
using
> "@account = mock_model(Account)". If i replace this with
"@account =
> mock(''account'', :null_object => true)" the test
passes, but i''m not
> sure that''s really what i want. I''m pretty sure i need to
us
> mock_model in this instance.
mock_model doesn''t do anything magic -- it just creates a mock (with a
conveniently-chosen name) and stubs out a few useful methods for you.  
In your case you need to stub out #save! too, so that you don''t get  
the failure: @account = mock_model(Account, :save! => true).

Cheers,
-Tom

Andy Goundry

2007-Dec-04 16:06 UTC

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cheers Tom. That worked. I''ll go dig in the rspec source...

On 04/12/2007, Tom Stuart <tom at experthuman.com>
wrote:>
> On 4 Dec 2007, at 15:41, Andy Goundry wrote:
> > I''ve created the following spec test to simply ensure that
the
> > Account model receives a call to :new, but the spec is failing as it
> > also receives a call to :save! and it isn''t expecting it. I
am using
> > "@account = mock_model(Account)". If i replace this with
"@account > > mock(''account'', :null_object =>
true)" the test passes, but i''m not
> > sure that''s really what i want. I''m pretty sure i
need to us
> > mock_model in this instance.
>
> mock_model doesn''t do anything magic -- it just creates a mock
(with a
> conveniently-chosen name) and stubs out a few useful methods for you.
> In your case you need to stub out #save! too, so that you don''t
get
> the failure: @account = mock_model(Account, :save! => true).
>
> Cheers,
> -Tom
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