similar to: Opening the singleton class of mocked objects

How can I safely mock a singleton without the mocked method living on outside the scope of the test method? I''ve run into this problem with mocking methods on globals (gasp!) in the past by doing something like def mock_my_global original = $my_global $my_global.expects(:foo).returns(''bar'') yield $my_global = original end Is there something similar I

Get info at http://evang.eli.st/blog/2007/1/20/instance-validations-plugin (until I set up an open svn repository). Download link is at the bottom of that page InstanceValidations =================== ActiveRecord lets you define validations at the class level. This plugin lets you define validations for ActiveRecord instances. Take the following ActiveRecord class: class Chicken <

Suppose we have a method ''foo'' which internally uses another method ''bar''. Being good BDDers we mock out the ''bar'' method. After all, we only want to spec the ''foo'' method - actually running the ''bar'' method means slower, less maintainable and brittler specs. That''s why we <3 mocking,

I''m developing a rails application. I have an Order model that has_many OrderItems. I mocked the OrderItem model in my Order specs using mock_model. I thought I should focus my specs on each model and always mock associated models. In my Order model I need a way to merge OrderItems which have the same cost and same product_id. That I can spec. The other thing this merge helper

I want to use mocks and stubs to test the controller, but am having trouble getting my validation not to trigger. Here''s the code: # spec: Image.stub!(:find).and_return(@image) @image.should_receive(:save!).once.with(:any_args) put :update, :id => @image.id, :category_id => @category.id, :image => {:name => ''test'', :image_number =>

hypothetical question for all you BDD experts: I want to make sure that a :list action always returns widgets in alphabetical order. There''s at least 2 ways of doing this: it "should fetch items in alphabetical order" do Widget.should_receive(:find).with(:order => "name ASC") get :list end it "should fetch items in alphabetical order" do [:red,

I found an awesome feature today. When you''re setting expectations, you can actually pattern match the parameters to methods. Here''s my discussion and example: http://evang.eli.st/blog/2007/1/19/parameter-matching-in-rspec Pat

I have a form with 3 fields: user_id, email and password. All 3 fields are required, so I have a "validates_presence_of :user_id, :email, :password" in my model. Works, but the validation errors show up in a different order than I specificed in the validates_presence_of statement. Is there a way to specify the order in which the validations (and corresponding error messages) should

Anyone ever uses test/mocks/development && test/mocks/test directories ? If someone does, test/mocks/development doesn''t really seem like a nice place for putting development environment mocked classes. May be mocks/ should be moved to RAILS_ROOT ? Or may be it should be removed. Views ? -- Cheers! - Pratik http://m.onkey.org

I''m having a problem with my User model. Originally I had alot of validation, including this: validates_presence_of :password_confirmation, :password validates_length_of :password, :within => 4..50 validates_confirmation_of :password However, this made it impossible to edit a user without setting his password, which I don''t want. So I tried to isolate the above validations

Is anyone out there writing specs to check attr_accessible fields? I had originally written my spec to check for allowing the desired fields, and then none of the other regular db fields. Unfortunately this isn''t satisfactory, because attr_protected could have been used instead, which of course wouldn''t prevent mass assignment to any whatever=(val) method. I''m thinking

Hi, I thought I had a handle on the whole singleton class thing but now I''m not too sure. I have a class definition: class ValidationMaster def validate(params) # complex and time consuming validation # returns true on success, raises Exception # on failure end end Okay, so when I''m running my functional tests within rails, I want to be able to control how

hi, i have a model with 2 validations on a field example: validates_presence_of :email validates_length_of :email, :within => 6..100 #r@a.wk validates_uniqueness_of :email validates_format_of :email, :with => Authentication.email_regex if i do the submit of form for a new object of the model with a blank mail i receive 4 errors. In this case i want receive

I have a User model with an email attribute. I''m using the following validations: validates_confirmation_of :email validates_format_of :email, :with => RFC822::EmailAddress, :message => "must be a valid address in the form user@domain.com" validates_uniqueness_of :email, :message => "address has already been taken. If you''ve forgotten your

Hey All, I have a form that submits data to multiple models. I have class Man < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :notes has_many :contacts validates_associated :contacts, :notes validates_presence_of :first_name validates_presence_of :last_name class Contact < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :man validates_presence_of :contact_info class Note < ActiveRecord::Base

All, I want to create a mock action to test a filter in a functional test, e.g.: # Simplified example def test_my_filter # Singleton action def @controller.foo assert # something end ActionController::Routing::Routes.draw do |map| map.connect '':controller/foo'', :action => ''foo'' end get :foo end My log files show that

Hi I have a model that uses several validation helpers, for example validates_presence_of. Now I want to add a custom validate method for a very complex validation. I override validate in the model and it works by itself but when I do this the helper validations stop working. I guess the helper methods rely on the ActiveRecord::Base#validate original method in some way. Has anyone any suggestions

Hi, I''m writing my own FormBuilder and I wanted to put an asterisk or something next to any required fields. The Builder has access to the AR object, is there any method I can call on the AR object that will tell me whether or not a particular field is required? Failing that, can I access the complete list of validations so I can look through it for instances of

Hi, Is there a way of validating input inside the controller? or an equivalent to ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods.validates_presence_of ? Cheers, -- Colin

I''ve got a user object which has quite a few attributes mapped to the database. As of right now I''ve got some validations in the model like: validates_presence_of :password, :message => "You must specify a valid password." validates_confirmation_of :password, :message => "Password doesn''t match the confirmation." validates_presence_of