rspec users - Aug 2008 - Rails controller specs and private helper methods

Hello guys,

Been a while since last time I worked with Rails so is taking me a
while get back to full speed.

For a specific scenario I''m facing right now, I required to implement
a generic REST controller that accept any kind of resource and provide
a @collection or @record to work with.

I take from the route requirements the name of the resource
(params[''resource_name'']) and then constantize it.

Since I keep doing that for several actions, I found cumbersome and
cryptic have this in my actions:

def index
  @collection =
params[''resource_name''].camelize.constantize.find(...)
end

You get the idea: something very ugly and something that will break if
I don''t be careful enough.

So I tried to extract it to it''s own method (resource_class), but
wrapping my brain to spec it is taking me a while.

At this point, I don''t like the feeling that resource_class is being
stubbed or expected in some actions, but not actually executed.

This is the pastie:

http://pastie.org/247678

Do you guys think that will be best to put the resource_class stub
inside the actions and create another context to deal with those
internals?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Luis Lavena <luislavena at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Do you guys think that will be best to put the resource_class stub
> inside the actions and create another context to deal with those
> internals?
I would.  In fact, if it were really necessary to treat a generic
resource as a model, I''d consider wrapping it inside a model class and
spec''ing it out as a model.


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