On Jul 14, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Matt Wynne wrote: > > You can do this, by using a test spy to remember the value of foo passed into > the stubbed constructor and then later comparing it: > > let(:foo) { Foo.new } > > it "should allocate a helper class Foo" do > actual_foo = Bar.should_receive(:new) do |the_foo| > the_foo > end > actual_foo.should == foo > end > > Whether you want to do this though, is another question. I think it's a bit > of an anti-pattern personally. I'd probably let acceptance tests catch > mistakes in this kind of thing, and concentrate on speccing the interaction > between Foo and Bar once you've got the instances spun up.
This is an interesting technique. I didn't realize that using the block form of expectations/matchers returned a value. Thanks for the tip! cr _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users