I'm testing a view that renders a form to edit an object. I'd like to test
that the form correctly populates the form with the object's attributes'
current values. I tried several variations on mock_model and stub_model in
order to maintain view/model separation--for instance:
require "spec_helper"
describe "informational_widget_frameworks/edit.html.erb" do
describe "rendered items" do
before(:each) do
@iwf = mock_model(InformationalWidgetFramework,
:heading => "IWF Heading",
).as_null_object
assign(:informational_widget_framework, @iwf)
render
end
it "should show 'IWF Heading'" do
rendered.should include("IWF Heading")
end
end
end
However, when the view is rendered, the value for the text_field bound to
@informational_widget_framework.heading is populated with
"InformationalWidgetFramework_1025". I've tried changing the example to:
it "should show 'IWF Heading'" do
@iwf.should_receive(:heading).and_return("IWF Heading")
rendered.should include("IWF Heading")
end
But, this gives the same results. Using stub_model similarly doesn't populate
the form fields with anything at all. The only way I can get these examples to
pass is by using the following for my before block:
before(:each) do
@iwf = InformationalWidgetFramework.create(
:heading => "IWF Heading",
)
assign(:informational_widget_framework, @iwf)
render
end
I'm clearly missing something here...can someone clue me in?
Thanks.
Brennon Bortz
Software Researcher
Dundalk Institute of Technology
[email protected]
Ph.D. Researcher & Composer - Sonic Arts Research Centre
Queen's University, Belfast
[email protected] / [email protected]
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