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sschmeck
sschmeck

Reputation: 7713

Mock Time.now with mocha

To mock Time.now with the mocha gem I use the following oneliner.

require 'minitest/autorun'                          
require 'mocha/mini_test'                                                                           
require 'time'                                      

class TimeMockTest < Minitest::Test                 
  def test_time_mock       
    # Mocking Time.now in one line                         
    Time.expects(:now).returns(Time.parse('20:12'))

    Time.now                                        
  end                                               
end

But running this code returns the following error since Time.parse() uses the the mocked Time.now() method. 

NoMethodError: undefined method `year' for nil:NilClass
    C:/Ruby22-x64/lib/ruby/2.2.0/time.rb:255:in `make_time'
    C:/Ruby22-x64/lib/ruby/2.2.0/time.rb:364:in `parse'
    time_mock.rb:8:in `test_time_mock'

How do you mock Time.now with mocha?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 400

Answers (1)

Thomas
Thomas

Reputation: 1633

You should check https://github.com/travisjeffery/timecop. It will help you to handle Time in your tests.

Upvotes: 1

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