I have a recursive class-level method that I'd like to spec. the logic of
it essentially does something like this:
def self.mymethod(inputs)
If x = <find something in db based on inputs>
x.do_something
else
<add something to db based on inputs>
mymethod(inputs)
end
end
I want to find a way to write a spec for this method that does both of these
things:
(1) stub out the do_something method (that method has its own specs)
(2) not stub out the logic in the else statement, (there is some complex
logic in there involving sql queries on multiple tables and i explicitly
want to make it touch the database so that I can examine the state of the
database after the method is run in my spec. a lot of complex stubs would
be required to do this while also having the spec that is actually useful)
any thoughts on how to accomplish this? two approaches that would make
sense but don't seem to be possible as far as i know are:
(A) stub out the do_something method for any instance of the class (i can't
stub it out for a particular record because the records don't exist at the
time of calling the method and I'm not stubbing the creation process)
(B) stub out "mymethod" only for the second time it is called (obviously i
can't stub the method out entirely since that's the method i'm testing)
thanks..
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