Question

Tested module

module Notifications
  extend self

  def notify(push_id, platform, message, event, args)
    puts "hello"
    ...     
  end
end


Notifications.should_receive(:notify)

Rspec says that notify wasn’t called, however “hello” is printed to log.

Answer 1

It works fine for me:

module Notifications
  extend self

  def notify(push_id, platform, message, event, args)
    puts "hello"
  end
end


describe 'RSpec stubbing' do
  it "works when I don't stub" do
    Notifications.should_not_receive(:notify)
  end

  specify 'works when I do stub' do
    Notifications.should_receive(:notify)
    Notifications.notify(1,2,3,4,5)
  end
end

Your code is obviously wrong, though, because when you do #should_receive it doesn’t invoke the original method. If you can see “hello” being printed out, then it is not getting caught by RSpec. Probably you’re confused about whether you’re stubbing an instance or the module itself.