On Oct 23, 2010, at 11:04 AM, deploy wrote:
> I've been spec'ing for a long time, but I've never discovered the
> answer to this, so a definitive answer would be great!
>
> Whats the best way to spec a method which basically filters an
> association?
>
> class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base
> has_many :others
>
> def foos
> others.all(:conditions => { ... })
> end
> end
>
> I don't like the idea of creating a load of associated records in my
> spec and testing the returned result as I am not testing the
> associated model and as such would prefer any references to it to be
> mocked out, so the best I can some up with is this super lame test
> which is clearly way too implementation specific and essentially
> useless.
>
> describe Thing do
> describe 'foos' do
> before :each do
> @thing = Thing.new
> @others_proxy = mock('others proxy')
> @others_proxy.stub!(:all)
> @thing.stub!(:others).and_return(@others_proxy)
> end
>
> it 'should return the associated others which meet the conditions'
> do
> @others_proxy.should_receive(:all).with({ :conditions => ' ...
> ' })
> @thing.foos
> end
> end
> end
>
> So what's the best practice in this case?
<tangent>
There are no 'best practices' absent _all_ of the context of the application,
dev stack, dev team, other apps the team builds, etc. That aside ...
</tangent>
When it comes to spec'ing filters, I tend to just use ActiveRecord (or whatever
ORM I'm using). It's OK for some examples to hit the DB, and this is a good
case for allowing it in my view, as the examples end up being more clear and
readable and less brittle.
HTH,
David
> Pastie is here for pretty formatting: http://pastie.org/1242892
>
> Thanks.
>
> P.S. This is old code I've inherited so I'm just trying to retrofit
> RSpec 1.3x to it before I start refactoring and bringing up to date
> with rails 3/rspec 2, so basically what I mean is what's the answer if
> the model simply is how it is and can't be changed?
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