On Nov 19, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Patrick J. Collins wrote:
>> #store_params is not an "action", therefore I would make it private.
>
> I agree completely, and probably should have specified that in my sample code
> (it certainly is private in my real non-hypothetical implementation).
>
>> Since it is used only by the #create action, I would spec it as part of the
>> #create spec:
>
> Well this came up for me because I have a bit of a complex controller which
> has
> several before_filters, and I wanted a clean way to really verify that each
> and
> every filter is doing what it should, so that's why I wanted to spec those
> individual methods.
>
>> You can, but you should mock Post.create!:
>>
>> describe '#create' do
>> it 'stores the :post params' do
>> Post.should_receive(:create!).and_return(true)
>> post :create, { :post => { :fake_param => "foobar" } }
>> session[:post_params][:fake_param].should == "foobar"
>> end
>> end
>
> Unfortunately, this project is using a plugin called "Decent Exposure" which
> does various magic to simplify controller code (and honestly has been a big
> headache). So, the create action actually calls post.save!
>
> the 'post' that .save! is called on is actually auto-generated by a method
> created by Decent Exposure. It returns a new record pre-populated with
> params[:post]...
>
> The failure I see is:
>
> Failure/Error: post :create, { :post => { :fake_param => "foobar" } }
> ActiveRecord::UnknownAttributeError:
> unknown attribute: foo
> # ./app/controllers/posts_controller.rb:107:in `new'
>
>
> ... So, I can't stub out "create!", because this failure is happening before
> there... And, if I do: Post.stubs(:new).returns(true)
>
> I still get the same failure.
>
> I even took it a step further where I explicitly told decent exposure to use a
> method:
>
> expose(:post) do
> exposed_for_post if params[:post]
> end
>
> def exposed_for_post
> Post.new(params[:post])
> end
>
> .. And guess what? Doing subject.stubs(:exposed_for_post).returns true
>
> still gives me the same failure, unknown attribute: foo in 'new'... But,
> manually testing stuff proves that exposed_for_post method IS being called,
> and
> everything is working.. I just want an automated test to prove it.
>
> I am totally stumped on this one...
>
> Patrick J. Collins
> http://collinatorstudios.com
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