Mocking/Stubbing help with subdomain as account key

Testing RSpec
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My app uses account_location to set up subdomains as account keys. In
my controllers, all my model operations are scoped through the
@current_person object.

The question is: How do I test this with RSpec’s mocking and
stubbing? Basically, I need to test that @current_person.things is
getting the find message and returning @thing. I’ve tried stubbing
and mocking @current_person.things a number of different ways with no
luck. Here’s my latest attempt:

things_controller_spec.rb

before do
@request.host = “subdomain.test.host”
@thing = mock_model(Thing)
@current_person = mock(“person”) # <= THE MOCKS IN QUESTION
@current_person.stub!(:things).and_return(Thing)
@current_person.things.stub!(:find).and_return(@thing)
end

def do_get
get :show, :id => “1”
end

it “should find the donation requested” do

Thing.should_receive(:find).with(“1”).and_return(@thing)

@current_person.things.should_receive(:find).with(“1”).and_return
(@thing)
do_get
end

things_controller.rb

def index
@things = @current_person.things
end

def show
@thing = @current_person.things.find(params[:id])
end

Thanks for your help.

P.S. Sorry if this is answered elsewhere - I did a lot of googling
and finally decided to ask the group!

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Ryan,Not exactly sure what is the problem your are having … however

Is the @current_person being assigned (set up) correctly in the
things_controller ?

Also may be refactor a #find_thing(…) instance method into the
@current_person class to
help with the encapsulation of things - literally.

This pushes the emphasis into the model and its spec for that
functioning as
intended then the controller need only verify that it is being called.

For example in the @current_person class

class CurrentPerson < Activerecord::Base #my assumption

def find_thing(id)
self.things.find(id)
end

end

then in controller spec

before do
@request.host = “subdomain.test.host”
@current_person = mock(“person”) # <= THE MOCKS IN QUESTION
@current_person.stub!(:things).and_return( [] )
@thing = mock_model(Thing)
@current_person.stub!(:find_thing).and_return( @thing )
end

it “should find the donation requested” do
@current_person.should_receive(:find_thing).once.with(“1”).and_return(@thing)
do_get
end

things_controller.rb

def index … end

def show
@thing = @current_person.find_thing( params[:id] )
end