Rails - Jun 2007 - How do I set up a test without using fixture in this case

Let''s say I have 3 records in SampleModel:

id: 1
created_at: 5/3/2007

id: 2
created_at: 6/3/2007

id: 3
created_at: 7/3/2007


I have a controller action that should only return records that were
created after 6/3/2007.  I can see how to do it with fixtures, but can I
perform this type of test with a mock object and/or stubs?

Thanks!
Nelson

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On 6/23/07, Nelson Hsu
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> Let''s say I have 3 records in SampleModel:
>
> id: 1
> created_at: 5/3/2007
>
> id: 2
> created_at: 6/3/2007
>
> id: 3
> created_at: 7/3/2007
>
>
> I have a controller action that should only return records that were
> created after 6/3/2007.  I can see how to do it with fixtures, but can I
> perform this type of test with a mock object and/or stubs?
There''s really two parts to this - how would you do it using mocks,
and what exactly would you mock? If it were me, it would look like
this (using rspec, but you can do the same thing w/ test/unit+mocha or
flexmock):

describe SampleModelsController, "handling GET /date_filtered_action"
do
  it "should ask SampleModel for items created before the submitted
date" do
    SampleModel.should_receive(:find_created_before).with("6/22/2007")
    get "date_filtered_action", :cutoff => "6/22/2007"
  end
  ...
end

class SampleModelsController < Application
  def date_filtered_action
    @sampleModels = SampleModel.find_created_before(params[:cutoff])
    ...
  end
end

And then I''d test the find_created_before method in my description of
SampleModel''s behaviour (TestSampleModel if you''re using
test/unit).

Now if you want to use mocks in the model test as well, you could do this:

describe SampleModel do
  it "should provide items created before a submitted date" do
    SampleModel.should_receive(:find).with(:conditions =>
["created_at
> ?", "6/22/2007"])
    SampleModel.find_created_before("2007-06-22")
  end
end

class SampleModel < ActiveRecord::Base
  def find_created_before(date)
    self.find(:all, :conditions => ["created_at > ?",
Date.parse(date).to_s(:db))]
  end
end

Note that this sort of testing is very risky if you''re not also doing
integration testing of some sort. For example, this would pass even if
there was no created_at column in the sample_models table. I happen to
do a lot of this sort of testing, but I do it in concert with customer
acceptance tests (i.e. high level end-to-end tests).

Hope that helps.

David

ps - I didn''t run this, so please forgive any errors.

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