[rspec-users] Stubbing renders

Nick Hoffman
Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:41:25 -0000

On 2008-09-28, at 16:33, Nick Hoffman wrote:
> Hi guys. I''m curious to know why this method of stubbing a render
> fails:
> ActionController::Base.stub!(:render_to_string).and_return
''something''
>
> And why this is [one of] the correct methods:
> controller.stub_render :partial => ''/some/partial''
>
> Cheers,
> Nick

Please ignore that email. I should be calling #stub! on the controller
in question, rather than on ActionController::Base , like so:
controller.stub!(:render_to_string.and_return ''something''