How to stub out a library file

Rails
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Hi all,

I encounter a problem when i’m stubing out a library file.
The rails version is 2.3.4.

[How to reproduce]

  1. Create a file payment_gateway.rb in subdirectory lib/.

[code]
class PaymentGateway
def self.collect
p ‘lib/payment_gateway’
true
end
end

  1. Create a file payment_gateway.rb in subdirectory test/mocks/test.

[code]
require ‘lib/util/payment_gateway’

class PaymentGateway
def self.collect
p ‘mock/payment_gateway’
false
end
end

  1. Create a method in any unit test file to test this method.

The actual result is invoking the method in the mock file, and the
output is
‘mock/payment_gateway’
false

But if i add the following code in the application_controller.rb

[code]
require ‘util/payment_gateway’

The actual result is invoking the method in the lib file, and the output
is
‘lib/payment_gateway’
true

I don’t know why is that, could anyone give me some help?

Thanks very much.