On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Matt Wynne <m...@mattwynne.net> wrote:
>
> On 5 Mar 2009, at 15:24, Ben Mabey wrote:
>
>> David Chelimsky wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Matt Wynne <m...@mattwynne.net> wrote:
>>> Maybe we should make this easier by providing some facility in the
>>> mock framework to express the following in one statement:
>>>
>>> @authenticator = stub('authenticator')
>>> Authenticator.stub!(:new).and_return(@authenticator)
>>>
>>> Sure, you could make that a one liner:
>>>
>>> Authenticator.stub!(:new).and_return(@authenticator =
>>> stub('authenticator')
>>>
>>> But I mean something like:
>>>
>>> @authenticator = Authenticator.stub!
>>>
>>> I don't think *that* is the answer - but something that concise would be
>>> nice.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>> I like the conciseness, but it isn't very clear what it is doing IMO.
>> Perhaps something a little more intention-revealing like:
>>
>> @authenticator = Authenticator.stub_new!
>
> I think I must mostly use constructor injection, as I don't really seem to
> have a pattern for this, but if I did I guess it would be something like
> this:
>
> extend StubbingHelpers
>
> describe "blah"
> before(:each) do
> �...@authenticator = mock_new_authenticator( :foo => bar )
>
> which is implemented like
>
> def stub_new_authenticator( *args )
> result = mock(Authenticator, *args)
> Authenticator.stub!(:new).and_return(result)
> result
> end
>
> I guess having something like that would be nice.
This is how I do it,
Zach
>
>
> Matt Wynne
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