How do I stub a view in rspec-2

Testing RSpec
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Hi,

I’m in the process of upgrading an app to Rails 3/Rspec 2. I see that
stubbing a view helper method has changed in Rspec 2. It looks like
instead of doing template.stub!, we’re now supposed to do view.stub!,
but I can’t seem to get this to work on beta 10. I get an “undefined
local variable or method `view’ for
#RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_1::Nested_1:0x106785fd0”
error.

I see that in this commit (Changelog for #2685 · rspec/rspec-rails@c76c1e6 · GitHub
0e860f580618045a34c17069b308c093e2e830cb) David removed the view
method, but I can’t figure out what it was replaced with. Something
in ActionView::TestCase::Behavior?

I’m on rails 3.0.0.beta3.

Any idea what I’m missing?

2

I’ve been using edge since your commit (and rails 3 beta 4) and it’s
working
great. Thanks!

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On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Trey [email protected] wrote:

I see that in this commit (Changelog for #2670 · rspec/rspec-rails@a9ae00b · GitHub
0e860f580618045a34c17069b308c093e2e830cb) David removed the view
method, but I can’t figure out what it was replaced with. Something
in ActionView::TestCase::Behavior?

I’m on rails 3.0.0.beta3.

Any idea what I’m missing?

This was an omission from beta.10/11 that I just fixed last night and
will be updated in beta.12.

Short term fix (could be in spec_helper.rb)

module ViewMemoizationFix
def _view
@_view ||= view
end
alias_method :view, :_view
end

RSpec.configure do |c|
c.include ViewMemoizationFix, :example_group => { :file_path =>
/\bspec/views// }
end

Let us know if that doesn’t work.

Cheers,
David