Ruby Forum RSpec > mock expectation in before block

Hi all,

consider a class Foo that send, in its constructor, some message to an
object of class Bar:

class Foo
  def initialize(bar)
    @bar = bar
    @bar.some_message
  end

  ...

end

Now, in order to test Foo, I'd like to decouple it from Bar mocking bar
object, so:

describe Foo do

  before do
    @bar = mock('bar')
    @bar.should_receive(:some_message)
    @foo = Foo.new(bar)
  end

  it 'should ...'
  it 'should ...'

  ...

end

The question is: is it appropriate to put a mock expectation inside a
before block? Or mock expectations are relegated to example blocks?

Thanks in advance.
Andrea

Hi Andrea,

I generally put stub! calls in the before block and then have the mock
expectation in the example block.

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Matt Berther
http://www.mattberther.com

Matt Berther ha scritto:
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Thank you for your answer Matt. I think I've cought the point.

Stub methods return canned responses so they are not intended to
underline interactions between the mock object and the object under 
testing.

Thank you again.
Andrea