Thanks, David! Glad I'm unstuck on this :)
David Chelimsky-2 wrote:
>
> On Dec 4, 2007 11:49 AM, schleg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> 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)
>
> This should be:
>
> @user.should_receive(:password_confirmation=)
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
>> 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!
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