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[#17695] RR style proxies

#10

Date: 2008-02-01 13:01 Opener: James Mead

Posted on behalf of Duncan Beevers http://rubyforge.org/users/dunca... from post on mailing list http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/m...

I really like the idea of Mock Proxies as explained in Brian Takita's post here: http://pivots.pivotallabs.com/us...

I posted to this list eariler with an incomplete implementation of stops_mocking in the thread "Mocking Time, delegating to original object." http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/m... The Mock Proxy pattern would make this simpler.


Proxy(User).expects(:find).with(99) # Sets expectation, forwards method invocation to original class


User.expects(:find).with(99).returns(nil).then.proxies # Canned response, then forwards successive invocations to original class.

Most of this is just my desire to be lazy and not actually have to unit-test trivial methods explicitly. I also like the idea of using the Mock Proxy to exercise the behavior of simple private instance methods of my class which are kind of a pain to test currently, which leads to my not making anything private.

Reported by James Mead · January 1st, 2009 @ 06:53 PM

State: new
Milestone: none
Assigned to: nobody

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  1. Christopher J. Bottaro
    Christopher J. Bottaro

    I would like to cast a vote for this being implemented.

    January 6th, 2009 @ 11:44 PM

  2. Rob Sanheim
    Rob Sanheim

    +1 for this. From my 5 minute glance in the source, it will not be trivial to add :).

    March 13th, 2009 @ 06:02 AM

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