Right. Example passed a block, but stub_chains didn't call it. Pretend
there's a yield(hades) in there somewhere.
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Chris Flipse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I dunno ... creating a bunch of joining methods seems to be an awfully
> disjoint way to deal with something that is, admittedly, designed to laugh
> in the face of the Law of Demeter.
>
> I've been handling chains through some heavy use of null_object stubs ...
> but, I've been doing that sort of manually. Could be rolled up, at least.
>
> I'm kind of spitballing something that might be somewhat less manual ...
>
> foo.stub_chains :method_1, :method_2 do |chain|
> end
>
> def stub_chains(*args)
> hades = stub("chain", :null_object => true)
> args.each do|chain|
> hades.stub!(chain).and_return(hades)
> self.stub!(chain).and_return(hades)
> end
> end
>
> This would more or less let named_scope be used like it's intended in
> Rails, with one not-so-little exception -- I have to know what gets called
> last, so it can return a real value. For me, in practice, that's been
> .paginate, so it's not been a huge issue, but that's a definite gotchya
>
>
> WDYT?
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Pat Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Fernando Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Therefore a workaround is to define an instance method:
>> > --
>> > class Thing
>> > def self.method1_and_method2(arg)
>> > method1(arg).method2
>> > end
>> > end
>>
>> I'm inclined to call this an improvement rather than a workaround :)
>>
>> Pat
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