Is stubbing a call to super possible?

Testing RSpec
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Hi

Is stubbing a call to super possible? I am testing a protected
method called authorized in a Rails controller … part of the logic
flow calls super which calls the method authorized in the application
controller.

As I am focused on the logic of the method in the controller I am
testing I just wish to stub the value returned in the super.

Is this at all possible?

Cheers
Shane

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On 5/10/2007, at 11:56 AM, Shane M. wrote:

Is this at all possible?

In the meantime I have used alias_method_chain to override the method
in the super class.

3

In the meantime I have used alias_method_chain to override the method
in the super class.
I up this old post, but I was having the same problem mocking super() so
I had to alias_method_chain my method.

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On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Fernando P. [email protected]
wrote:

In the meantime I have used alias_method_chain to override the method
in the super class.
I up this old post, but I was having the same problem mocking super() so
I had to alias_method_chain my method.

You can’t mock super because super doesn’t behave like other methods.
It is a language keyword that invokes the same method on the parent
class. So if you do this:

def foo
super
end

… the call to super calls foo on the superclass.

Since we don’t get into the class hierarchy in rspec’s mock/stub
framework, there is no facility for managing this. I believe that is
the case for mocha, flexmock and rr as well, though I could be wrong.

HTH,
David