The problem is that you're passing a hash with symbols as keys, and
rails takes the params and converts it to a HashWithIndifferentAccess,
which actually stores the keys as strings.
One thing you might try to solve your problem is do this:
it "should create new client" do
client = Client.plan.with_indifferent_access
Client.should_receive(:new).with(client)
post 'create' , :client => client
end
I guess that will probably solve it.
On an unrelated note—and here's to opening a huge can of worms :)—I
usually dislike stubbing/mocking to do these simple tests. I tend to
like testing more the behavior of my controllers, so for a valid
create, I would write this test:
it "adds a new client" do
lambda { post :create, :client => Client.plan }.should
change(Client, :count).by(1)
end
Since this doesn't rely on the implementation (calling
Client.new(params) — which might change to
current_user.clients.new(params), and maybe some business logic is
added along the way and it turns into current_user.add_client(params)
at some point), it tells me that the action, provided valid
parameters, is working, and at the same time will resist a
refactoring.
(This is considering your action is a "standard" create action for a
rails controller)
But again, this is *my* usual approach, there are good reasons both in
favor of not mocking and in favor of mocking the behavior of your
models. I just like the ones in favor of not mocking a bit more :)
Cheers
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Stephen Smithstone
<stephen.smithst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> cheers for the response , seem that attributes is missing from hash on my
> system
>
> all i did was the blueprint with a standard hash
>
> client = { :title => "Mr }
>
> client.attributes
>
> NoMethodError: undefined method `attributes' for {:title=>"Mr"}:Hash
>
> is attributes added on by rails ?
>
> if so my setup must be wrong
>
> On 2 February 2010 12:07, J. B. Rainsberger <jbrainsber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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