I was able to figure it out... for some reason my question was double posted.
Thanks On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Antonio Antillon <[email protected]>wrote: > I think it's because you're are telling your method to select randomly and > sequentially. That's why you get different string values than what you > expect in your spec. > > Here: > (0..length).map{ rand(36).to_s(36) }.join > > you're are taking random values and then joining them.. with random > selected values, it's pretty unusual that you'll get back an ordered > sequential string like "abcdef". > > Hope this helps. > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Dan Brooking <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I have a small Sinatra app I've been working on... I've been searching >> and found quite a few with this question but no real answers. I also >> posted this to the Sinatra group in case it's an issue there. I'm hoping >> it's something small that I'm doing wrong as I'm not too experienced in the >> art of stubbing. >> >> I have a helper method that returns a random string... >> >> def random_string(length) >> (0..length).map{ rand(36).to_s(36) }.join >> end >> >> >> I have my test written as follows: >> >> describe "#random_string" do >> it "returns a random string" do >> >> #Sinatra::Application.any_instance.stub(:random_string).and_return("abcdef") >> >> Sinatra::Application.should_receive(:random_string).with(6).and_return('abcdef') >> str = random_string(6) >> str.should == "abcdef" >> end >> end >> >> >> I have tried both lines shown in the code, and both times, the code runs. >> Yet my tests are still failing. It doesn't look like the stub is taking. >> My failure looks like: >> >> #random_string returns a random string >> Failure/Error: str.should == "abcdef" >> expected: "abcdef" >> got: "xcz0g7a" (using ==) >> >> Any ideas? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "rspec" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rspec/-/ZNjjVJxF9f4J. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "rspec" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "rspec" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
