Question

I am new to ruby and ruby on rails. How can I stub attributes in a class?

class User < PresentationModel
  ...
  attr_accessor  :_vendor

_vendor is in my databse and has three columns: ID, shortname, type. How can I only stub this attirbute in rspec?

Something like this?

  @vendor = mock_model(vendor, :ID=> 12, :shortname => 'testBLA', :type => 1)

Cheers

Answer 1

You can stub this attribute only by:

@vendor = mock_model(Vendor, **:id** => 1, :shortname => "Bla", :type => 1)

(Attention for the Rails id convention)

And then:

User.should_receive(:_vendor).and_return @vendor

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