[mocha-developer] Stubbing objects and calling to_json on them errors (circular reference)

[Bill Kocik]

On  20 Oct, 2008, at 2:01 PM, John Wilger wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> I would suggest not using an actual instance of Something at all.  
> You are testing SomethingController, not Something

I'm right there with ya, John. Sadly the situation I'm in is that I've  
just joined this project, and it's kind of a mess. In some cases I can  
mock the object (and I do), but in others there are so many calls to  
the object, and then calls to objects that come back from those calls,  
that stubbing all that stuff out is a little bit prohibitive. It's in  
these situations that I opt to create a genuine object. Our first step  
in the cleanup effort is to try to increase our test coverage to a  
level we're comfortable with, so for now I'm stuck with writing less- 
than-ideal tests for less-than-ideal code.

I think a work-around I can use for now (until we can clean all of  
this up) is to stub the to_json method.

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Bill Kocik