From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-12-02T05:34:57+09:00
Subject: Re: mocking in rspec

On 12/1/2010 12:21 PM, Ruby Pasaulyje wrote:
> I have a problem with mocking. I have class DistanceMatrix and I would
> like to indicate which method form_matrix is called in if/else
> statement. I need to use mocha and rspec. Any ideas?
> 
> 
> class DistanceMatrix
> 
>  def initialize(*args)
>     if args[0].class == String
>       form_matrix(get_data_from_yaml(args[0], args[1]))
>     elsif args[0].class == Array || args[0] == nil
>       form_matrix(get_data_from_db(args[0]))
>     end
>  end
> 
>  def form_matrix()
>   ...
>  end
> 
> end

If you really need to tie your tests to such implementation details,
perhaps you could also mock get_data_from_yaml and get_data_from_db and
check to see which is called each time form_matrix is called.

-Jeremy