On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Avdi Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, I blogged my answer to this question recently: > http://avdi.org/devblog/2008/10/21/testing-private-methods/
...and to be a little more concrete, at first glance the way I'd apply that advice to your code example is to make a class that either subclasses or wraps (via DelegateClass/SimpleDelegate) Array and adds a #sub_total method, something like the following: class Survey < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :participants ... def generate_reports ... sub_total = ReportCollection.new(participants.reports).sub_total ... end class ReportCollection < SimpleDelegator def sub_total sub_total = 0 self.collect do |report| sub_total = sub_total + report.score end return sub_total end end end -- Avdi Home: http://avdi.org Developer Blog: http://avdi.org/devblog/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/avdi Journal: http://avdi.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users