[mocha-developer] Mocking objects to test Rails Controllers

[Andrew Vit]

I think Rick was asking how to test from a controller. Assuming that  
the controller intantiates the Person object so you can't setup with  
Person.new inside your test, you can do:

   Person.any_instance.expects(:send_sms)

--Andrew Vit


On May 28, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Rob Sanheim wrote:

> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Rick Moynihan  
> <rick at calicojack.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm currently considering the use of Mocha to aid in writing my Rails
>> unit/functional tests.
>>
>> I currently have a Rails model which mixes in a series of methods  
>> to allow
>> it to talk to an external service.  The code is roughly of this form:
>>
>> class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
>>
>>  include SMSNotifier
>>
>>  def send_notification(message)
>>     send_sms(number,message)
>>     # more code/interactions...
>>  end
>> end
>>
>> Assuming I want to test that a call to send_notification calls  
>> send_sms on
>> the SMSNotifier module, what is the best way to use Mocha to do this?
>> Obviously I don't want my tests calls to send_notification to  
>> actually do
>> any SMS sending :-)
>>
>> I'm assuming Mocha can monkey-patch it's own method/expectations  
>> over the
>> SMSNotifier module.  In Java, I'd use dependency injection, but I'm  
>> trying
>> to find the Ruby way here.
>>
>> Also I've seen that Rails has a folder called test/mocks, can  
>> anyone provide
>> any examples or links as to the use of this in Rails/Mocha?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your assistance,
>
> With mocha, this is very simple.  Say goodbye to DI, and forget the
> builtin rails/mocks as well.
>
> def test_sends_sms_with_number
>  person = Person.new(:number => "5551234567")
>  person.expects(:send_sms).with("5551234567", "test msg")
>  person.send_notification("test msg")
> end
>
> That test will ensure your sms method gets called, and it also removes
> its implementation so no actual web service calls are made.
>
> - Rob
>
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