rspec users - Mar 2009 - Expecting a block to return a specific value

Hi,

I have the following method in a Rails view helper:

def title
  content_for(:title) do
    # some code which generates a title dynamically
  end
end

How can I spec that the code inside the block returns the correct title?

TIA,

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2009/3/21 Guilherme Machado Cirne <gcirne at
gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following method in a Rails view helper:
>
> def title
> ? content_for(:title) do
> ??? # some code which generates a title dynamically
> ? end
> end
>
> How can I spec that the code inside the block returns the correct title?
My preference is to let my view helpers be rendered in my view specs,
and I move the logic that constructs the title onto a presenter. Then
I can say things like this in my view spec:

it "should render the title" do
  thing = mock "thing presenter", :title => "foo"
  assign[:thing] = thing
  render "some.template"
  response.should contain("foo")
end

And I can have a presenter spec which verifies the title is built correctly

describe ThingPresenter do
   describe ''#title'' do
      it "should return a concatenated title, user name, blah blah
blah" do
         # ....
      end
   end
end

There are more ways to accomplish this I know, but I''ve grown to
become extremely fond of the clean separation between constructing
markup and producing presentation content. It makes things easier to
spec IMO, gives things a good home, and allows me to stop looking at
content for instance variables dynamically generated by Rails.

If interested...   http://wiki.github.com/mhs/caching_presenter


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Zach Dennis
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