[rspec-users] Mocking Models in Controller Specs...

Sven Fuchs
Thu, 29 May 2008 18:30:52 -0000

All the mentioned solutions are great, but for me they implied a bit
too much hassle to set up and also, given a larger number of specs, a
bit slow.

This discussion actually motivated me to publish my own stubbing
solution that I''ve recently implemented on GitHub. (This actually is a
kind of a factory plus a dsl to define your stubs).

http://github.com/svenfuchs/stubby/tree/master

Like said in the readme, the code is pretty new and bugs/problems
might well be present. Please let me know if you find any.



On 27.05.2008, at 11:37, Jarkko Laine wrote:

>
> On 27.5.2008, at 10.52, Mark Dodwell wrote:
>
>> Also, any opinions on using a Factory pattern for instantiating
>> mocks of
>> models? I like the idea of maintaining mocks in one place as I
>> frequently use them across several specs for models that have
>> associations. Do you think it would create dependency issues
>> between the
>> specs using that Factory?
>
> I have built my own "factory" by creating methods such as
mock_user
> in the spec helper. That method will then fill in some reasonable
> values and stub all the needed methods. Granted, the need for that
> is less now with stub_model, but sometimes you also want to stub
> some associations. That has certainly reduced the amount of
> repetition in my specs.
>
> //jarkko
>
>>
>>
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