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Reputation: 401

Unexpected RSpec #should_receive behavior

surely I'm missing something... but what!?

in my spec I've

User.should_receive(:find).with("1").and_return(@user)

and in my controller

User.find(params[:id])

green light... correct...

but if I change my controller using another method, for example first:

User.first

or even

User.all

I get green light too... I was expecting an error like 

expected: 1 time
received: 0 times

could anyone give me a hint to understand that behaviour?

many thanks

EDIT

here you could find more info about this issue: https://gist.github.com/3848429#file_user_controller_spec.rb

EDIT 2

my spec now, but I still need to check with method is calling each #find...

describe "GET #show" do
  before(:each) do
    @user = mock_model(User)
    should_authorize(:show, @user)
  end

  it "assigns the requested user to @user" do
    User.should_receive(:find).with("1").twice.and_return(@user)
    get :show, id: "1"
  end
  it "renders the :show template" do
    get :show, id: "1"
    response.should render_template :show
  end
end

Upvotes: 0

Views: 482

Answers (1)

Peter Brown
Peter Brown

Reputation: 51697

I don't believe you need both User.stub!(:find)... and User.should_receive(:find)... since the should_receive basically acts like a stub. I would remove the first one and see if that that changes the behavior.

Upvotes: 1

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