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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 04:24, Stephen S.stone [email protected]
wrote:
A bit stuck here being new to ruby and rspec
Welcome. I hope you like the experience. Good news: we’ve seen what
you’ve done a thousand times and so it’s quite easy to explain.
in my controller
expected: ({:title=>“Mr”, :firstname=>“Ernest”, :lastname=>“Burke”,
:email=>“[email protected]”})
got: ({“title”=>“Mr”, “lastname”=>“Burke”, “firstname”=>“Ernest”,
“email”=>“[email protected]”})is there a way to specify to use symbols instead of the strings as keys, as
I dont want to be doing:client => { “title” => client.title , … }
as the client model may change over time
Try Client.should_receive(:new).with(client.attributes), because the
#attributes method turns a model into a Hash of symbol to value. It
uses string keys instead of symbol keys, but that shouldn’t hurt you.
Good luck.
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cheers for the response , seem that attributes is missing from hash on
my
system
all i did was the blueprint with a standard hash
client = { :title => "Mr }
client.attributes
NoMethodError: undefined method `attributes’ for {:title=>“Mr”}:Hash
is attributes added on by rails ?
if so my setup must be wrong
seems the blueprint is not inheriting from active record base so no
#attributes on the class, have to look for another solution or pass in
some
parameters my self
On 2 February 2010 12:26, Stephen S.stone
The problem is that you’re passing a hash with symbols as keys, and
rails takes the params and converts it to a HashWithIndifferentAccess,
which actually stores the keys as strings.
One thing you might try to solve your problem is do this:
it “should create new client” do
client = Client.plan.with_indifferent_access
Client.should_receive(:new).with(client)
post ‘create’ , :client => client
end
I guess that will probably solve it.
On an unrelated note—and here’s to opening a huge can of worms :)—I
usually dislike stubbing/mocking to do these simple tests. I tend to
like testing more the behavior of my controllers, so for a valid
create, I would write this test:
it “adds a new client” do
lambda { post :create, :client => Client.plan }.should
change(Client, :count).by(1)
end
Since this doesn’t rely on the implementation (calling
Client.new(params) — which might change to
current_user.clients.new(params), and maybe some business logic is
added along the way and it turns into current_user.add_client(params)
at some point), it tells me that the action, provided valid
parameters, is working, and at the same time will resist a
refactoring.
(This is considering your action is a “standard” create action for a
rails controller)
But again, this is my usual approach, there are good reasons both in
favor of not mocking and in favor of mocking the behavior of your
models. I just like the ones in favor of not mocking a bit more 
Cheers
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Stephen S.stone
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Stephen S.stone
[email protected] wrote:
seems the blueprint is not inheriting from active record base so no
#attributes on the class, have to look for another solution or pass in some
parameters my self
Model#plan will just return a hash of attributes, using your
blueprint. If you want an instance of the model, you can use
Model#make, or Model#make_unsaved.
(This is assuming you’re using Machinist, given the api you’re using)
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 07:26, Stephen S.stone
[email protected] wrote:
cheers for the response , seem that attributes is missing from hash on my
system
You’ll find #attributes on ActiveRecord::Base, and not Hash.
Try this:
it “should create new client” do
// creates me a hash of generated values using Foregey
client = Client.plan
// specify that I should be creating a new client with the hash
values from client
Client.should_receive(:new).with(client.attributes)
//post to the server
post ‘create’ , :client => client
end
J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger :: http://www.jbrains.ca ::
http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com
Diaspar Software Services :: http://www.diasparsoftware.com
Author, JUnit Recipes
2005 Gordon Pask Award for contribution to Agile practice :: Agile
2010: Learn. Practice. Explore.
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 09:18, J. B. Rainsberger
[email protected] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 07:26, Stephen S.stone
[email protected] wrote:cheers for the response , seem that attributes is missing from hash on my
systemYou’ll find #attributes on ActiveRecord::Base, and not Hash.
I responded too soon. Ignore my response. I don’t know Machinist, and
so I can’t help you.
J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger :: http://www.jbrains.ca ::
http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com
Diaspar Software Services :: http://www.diasparsoftware.com
Author, JUnit Recipes
2005 Gordon Pask Award for contribution to Agile practice :: Agile
2010: Learn. Practice. Explore.