Question

I am trying to set up a unit test for a piece of code that uses a spelling corrector. I have the code properly dependency injected, so setting up the stub in Rhinomocks is not a problem, but the block of text I’ve created for the test is a good 50 words long and I would really rather not have 50 lines of code that look something like this:

spellingCorrector.Stub(x => x.CorrectWord("the")).Return("the");
spellingCorrector.Stub(x => x.CorrectWord("boy")).Return("boy");
spellingCorrector.Stub(x => x.CorrectWord("ran")).Return("ran");

For the purposes of my unit tests I think assuming that the words are spelled right is okay. Is there a way to get Rhinomocks to simply follow a rule about returning, something to the effect of:

spellingCorrector.Stub(x => x.CorrectWord(y)).Return(y);

Answer 1

You could use the IgnoreArguments() method:

spellingCorrector
    .Stub(x => x.CorrectWord(null))
    .IgnoreArguments()
    .Return(y);

This way no matter what value is passed to the CorrectWord method, it will return y.

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UPDATE:

After your comment it is more clear:

Func<string, string> captureArg = arg => arg;
spellingCorrector.Stub(x => x.CorrectWord(null)).IgnoreArguments().Do(captureArg);

This will use whatever value is passed as argument as return value. Adapt the captureArg delegate if you need to perform some transformations on this return value.