On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 04:24, Stephen Smithstone <ssmithst...@me.com> wrote:
> A bit stuck here being new to ruby and rspec
Welcome. I hope you like the experience. Good news: we've seen what
you've done a thousand times and so it's quite easy to explain.
> it "should create new client" do
> // creates me a hash of generated values using Foregey
> client = Client.plan
> // specify that I should be creating a new client with the hash values
> from client
> Client.should_receive(:new).with(client)
> //post to the server
> post 'create' , :client => client
> end
>
> in my controller
>
> def create
> client = Client.new(params[:client])
> end
>
> now this is failing with
>
> Spec::Mocks::MockExpectationError: <Client(id: integer, created_at:
> datetime, updated_at: datetime, title: string, lastname: string, firstname:
> string, email: string) (class)> received :new with unexpected arguments
> expected: ({:title=>"Mr", :firstname=>"Ernest", :lastname=>"Burke",
> :email=>"rgarr...@blogtag.info"})
> got: ({"title"=>"Mr", "lastname"=>"Burke", "firstname"=>"Ernest",
> "email"=>"rgarr...@blogtag.info"})
>
> is there a way to specify to use symbols instead of the strings as keys, as
> I dont want to be doing
>
> :client => { "title" => client.title , ............ }
>
> as the client model may change over time
Try Client.should_receive(:new).with(client.attributes), because the
#attributes method turns a model into a Hash of symbol to value. It
uses string keys instead of symbol keys, but that shouldn't hurt you.
Good luck.
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