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    <p>Partly following on from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6372763/rspec-how-do-i-write-a-test-that-expects-certain-output-but-doesnt-care-about-t">this</a> question. Hopefully the example speaks for itself: there's a WishlistReporter class which asks one object for data and outputs to another object. </p> <p>The problem is that with the double for DB, I'm actually testing a whole bunch of things in a single example. Which is not ideal. </p> <p>I can split the report() method into gather_data() and output() methods. But that doesn't help: in order to test the output() method I would still need to create the mock db and run gather_data() again.</p> <p>Is there a way around this?</p> <pre><code>describe WishlistReporter do it "should talk to the DB and output a report" do db = double("database") db.should_receive(:categories).and_return(["C1"]) db.should_receive(:items).with("C1").and_return(["I1", "I2"]) db.should_receive(:subitems).with("I1").and_return(["S1", "S2"]) db.should_receive(:subitems).with("I2").and_return(["S3", "S4"]) wr = StringIO.new r = WishlistReporter.new(db) r.report(db, :text, wr) wr.seek(0) wr.read.should =~ /stuff/ end end </code></pre> <p>(In reference to the previous question: I'm perfectly happy to mock the Db class because I consider its interface to be external: part of the "what" not the "how".)</p>
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    1. COLooks like I'm just going to live with it.
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