Controller spec, integrate views, mocking helper method

Testing RSpec
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I need to use integrate views to test some particular features. In
ApplicationHelper I have:

module ApplicationHelper
def current_user_permitted?
# some logic that returns true/false
end
end

I’m testing MyController using Rspec/flexmock…

describe MyController do
integrate_views
before(:each) do
# how can I mock the ‘current_user_permitted?’ method here ?
get :index
end

 it "should display blah blah" do
      response.should have_tag('div#foo') do
           with_tag('div#bar',{:html => (/blah blah/)} )
      end
 end

end

I’ve found that I can make the test pass by mocking the
current_user_permitted? like this (BOTH mocks required in order to
pass!):

flexmock(ActionView::Base).new_instances.should_receive(“current_user_permitted?”).and_return(true)
flexmock(controller, ‘current_user_permitted?’ => true)

but this (2 mocks) just doesn’t seem right, what is the right way?

thanks in advance for any insight you can offer

Les