mock(*args) public

Alias for double

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June 4, 2009
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A typical usage for a mock

You want to use a mock when you’re testing a behaviour of one of your methods that interacts with some outside world service (eg. an FTP server).

it "should login to ftp server" do
  ftp = mock('Ftp server', :null_object => true)
  Net::FTP.should_receive(:new).and_return(ftp)
  ftp.should_receive(:login).with('username', 'password')
  some_obj.connect
end

def connect
  session = Net::FTP.new('server.com')
  session.login('username', 'password')
  session.close
end