Hey, I just ran into a situation where I would like to expect a method call with an argument I know and another one, which is a random number. I think mocking up the rand method is somehow ugly so I thought maybe this is the first time where I can take something from Java to Ruby ;) Java's EasyMock mocking library knows things like "anyObject()" and "anyInteger()" in their method equivalent to should_receive. I like the idea so I added this to my Rails spec_helper.rb:
class AnyObjectComparator attr_reader :object def ==(other) @object = other true end end class AnyNumberComparator < AnyObjectComparator def ==(other) super.==(other) other.is_a?(Numeric) end end def any_object @any_object ||= AnyObjectComparator.new @any_object end def any_number @any_number ||= AnyNumberComparator.new @any_number end Which gives me the ability to do the should_receive call like this: Item.should_receive(:random_item).with(any_object, any_number).at_least(1).times.and_return(mock_model(Item)) (the first any_object parameter is only in there for demonstration purposes ;) ) And if I would like to it's possible to get the actual value which was passed to as an argument with: any_xxx.object Ok, these any_xxx things behave somehow like a singleton but it's no problem at all to instantiate more of them to use many of them and afterwards get the actual value of any of them. So long. My question is: Is this too much effort? Is something like this already built into RSpec, I can't find something but I can't believe there isn't ;) and could this be done smarter? This singleton like behavior of any_xxx feels grubby. Thank you a lot! Thorben _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
