This may be a dumb noob issue, but I haven't found any answers while seaching the forum--
I have a controller method def edit @user = User.find params[:id] @user.password_confirmation = @user.password end The User class has an "attr_accessor :password_confirmation" definition (so "password_confirmation" doesn't exist in the users table). My spec has the following it "should find User on GET to users/edit/:id" do User.should_receive(:find).and_return(@user) @user.should_receive(:password_confirmation) get 'edit', :id => @user.id end I am asking it to expect that I will be assigning something to that attribute in the "edit" method. Unfortunately, the spec fails with Spec::Mocks::MockExpectationError in 'UsersController should find User on GET to users/edit/:id' Mock 'user' received unexpected message :password_confirmation= with ("password") Initially I thought that my "should_receive" expectation was incorrectly written, but if I comment out the attribute assignment in the controller method ... @user = User.find params[:id] [EMAIL PROTECTED] = @user.password ... then the test fails with Spec::Mocks::MockExpectationError in 'UsersController should find User on GET to users/edit/:id' Mock 'user' expected :password_confirmation with (any args) once, but received it 0 times So, it seems to me that the expectation is written correctly, but something about using the attr_accessor via the mock object is causing a failure. BTW, I am doing the following in a before(:each) block @user = mock("user") @user.stub!(:new_record?).and_return(false) @user.stub!(:update_attributes).and_return(true) @user.stub!(:password_confirmation).and_return('password') @user.stub!(:password).and_return('password') User.stub!(:new).and_return(@user) Does anyone know what I'm missing here? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unexpected-message-on-%3Aattr_accessor-tf4944588.html#a14155614 Sent from the rspec-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users