Rails 3.2.1 breaks stub?

Hi,

First things first: Thanks for the GREAT gem and all of the work that
you and others put into this - it is much appreciated!

I read on David C.'s blog that Rails 3.2 broke “stub_model” and
that upgrading to rspec-rails-2.8.1 would fix the problem.

I have a bunch of specs that ran fine using rspec-rails-2.8.1 and
Rails 3.1.3, but when I upgraded to Rails 3.2.1 the following line
choked for the following reason (which I believe is the same problem
that occurred with “stub_model”):

Code:
act.stub(:update_attributes).and_raise(ActiveRecord::StaleObjectError)

Error: ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (0 for 2)

Has anyone else seen this? Is there a fix? Am I barking up the wrong
tree?

Thanks,
Larry

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry [email protected] wrote:

I have a bunch of specs that ran fine using rspec-rails-2.8.1 and
Rails 3.1.3, but when I upgraded to Rails 3.2.1 the following line
choked for the following reason (which I believe is the same problem
that occurred with “stub_model”):

Code:
act.stub(:update_attributes).and_raise(ActiveRecord::StaleObjectError)

Error: ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (0 for 2)

Please run with the --backtrace flag and post the backtrace so we can
see where that error is coming from.

Hi David,

The trace is below.

Like I said, the line in the spec that causes the error (at least I
think it does; it works when I comment it out; plus, it fails in all 3
specs where I have a similar line) is:

act.stub(:update_attributes).and_raise(ActiveRecord::StaleObjectError)

The line in the controller that bombs out (about 7 lines down in the
trace) is:

if @act.update_attributes params[:act]
  flash.now.notice = "Act was updated. (Refresh the list to see

changes in the table.)"
end

Thanks,
Larry

ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (0 for 2)

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On Jan 29, 2012, at 7:53 AM, Larry wrote:

Hi David,

The trace is below.

Like I said, the line in the spec that causes the error (at least I
think it does; it works when I comment it out; plus, it fails in all 3
specs where I have a similar line) is:

act.stub(:update_attributes).and_raise(ActiveRecord::StaleObjectError)

I didn’t notice this before, but the first two lines of the backtrace
reveal the problem.

The and_raise method only works with an error class if that class has
a 0-arg initializer [1]. ActiveRecord::StaleObjectError’s initializer
requires two arguments [2]. This changed between 3.1 and 3.2 [3,4].

I added a placeholder for a feature request to improve the error
messaging in rspec-mocks [5].

To fix the problem (with or without helpful error messages from rspec),
it’s up to you to change

act.stub(:update_attributes).and_raise(ActiveRecord::StaleObjectError)

to something like

act.stub(:update_attributes).and_raise(ActiveRecord::StaleObjectError.new(act,
:update))

HTH,
David

[1]
http://rubydoc.info/gems/rspec-mocks/RSpec/Mocks/MessageExpectation#and_raise-instance_method
[2]

[3] Includes stale record in StaleObjectError · rails/rails@410fa4c · GitHub
[4] Consider attempted action in exception message of ActiveRecord::Stale… · rails/rails@c6f0461 · GitHub
[5] Add a helpful message when an error class passed to `and_raise` requires 1 or more initialization arguments · Issue #99 · rspec/rspec-mocks · GitHub