stump

• www.github.com/jeremymcanally/stump

DESCRIPTION:

Stubbing and mocking that isn’t painful, fanciful, and doesn’t inspire any sort of contempt or bitterness.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

• Stubbing right on the object.

    # Returns 'hey!'
    MyClass.stub!(:thing, :return => "hey!")
    # Returns nil
    your_object.stub!(:hello)
  

• Pure stub objects.

    my_stub = stub(:thing, :return => "dude, a thing!")
    my_stub.thing   # => "dude, a thing!"
  

• Mocking right on the object.

    my_object = "things are fun"
    my_object.mock!(:fancy, "ooo fancy!")
    my_object.fancy # => "ooo fancy!"
  

• Pure mock objects.

    my_mock = mock(:hello, :return => "what fun is this?")
    my_mock.hello   # => "what fun is this?"
  

• Proxying objects.

    class Greeting
      def bonjour
        "Bonjour!"
      end
    end
  
    greet_me = Greeting.new
    greet_me.proxy!(:bonjour)
    greet_me.bonjour  # => "Bonjour!"
  
    greet_you = Greeting.new
    greet_you.proxy!(:bonjour)
  
    # finish test...
    # ! Unmet expectations: #<Greeting:0x371d24> expected hello
  

SYNOPSIS:

    # Stub class methods
    MyClass.stub!(:thing, :return => "hey!")
    # Stub method on object
    your_object.stub!(:my_method)
    # Stub method on object, requiring parameters
    my_object.stub!(:other_method) do |arg1, arg2|
      puts arg1
      puts arg2
    end

    # Mock method on object
    MyClass.mock!(:my_method, :return => "hehe")
    # Mock method on object, requiring parameters
    my_obj.mock!(:hehe, :return => nil) do |arg1, arg2, arg3|
      # Fun party!
    end

    # Sets expectation it will receive a method, calling the real method
    MyClass.proxy!(:the_method)
    # Returns static value but still has side effects of real method call
    MyClass.proxy!(:that_method, :return => "poop")

NOTES:

• Be sure you call super in teardown if you create your own teardown methods. Otherwise your mocks won’t get verified!

REQUIREMENTS:

• Test::Unit (batteries included with Ruby)

INSTALL:

    $ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
    $ sudo gem install jeremymcanally-stump

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

• Thanks to Jim Weirich for Flexmock, David Chelmisky et. al. for RSpec’s mocking stuff, and Brian Takita for rr. All of those things fed into stump.
• BIG thanks to Nathan Sutton (fowlduck) for helping me work through how to get +proxy!+ to work with ActiveRecord/method_missing.

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2008 Jeremy McAnally

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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