On Feb 4, 2008 2:51 PM, Nate Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a frustrating experience with a mock object in one example (a > Rails controller test) interfering with an actual model test in a subsequent > model example. More specifically, I have > spec/controllers/section_controller_spec.rb with a mock call like this in > one of the examples: > > Section.should_receive(:paginate_by_tag_set).with([], :page => > nil).and_return([]) > > Ok, everything is fine so far. The mock does what it is supposed to and my > example succeeds. > Later on, I have a model spec in spec/models/section_spec.rb that actually > tests the functionality of this "paginate_by_tag_set" class method, like > this: > > Section.paginate_by_tag_set([], :page => nil).total_entries.should == 19 > > This model example fails, and I've determined that the code for my > paginate_by_tag_set class method is never even getting called in this > example. It seems to have something to do with the order in which my tests > are run ... whenever I run the controller test before the model tests, this > model example fails, presumably because the mocked call to > paginate_by_tag_set is still living, and the actual code isn't getting > called.
This was a bug a long time ago (probably a year), so unless you're on a very old version I doubt it's related. What version of rspec are you using? Also - can you pastie the spec and code for this controller? It would help to see what else is going on that might be leading to this. Thanks, David > > If I run spec spec/models/section_spec.rb individually, everything passes > just fine. > > Any ideas on how to isolate the mock to live only within the test in which > it is defined? Am I understanding something wrong here? > > Thanks, > Nate > > _______________________________________________ > rspec-users mailing list > rspec-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users > _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
