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Mocha 0.2 released

I’ve just released a new version of the Ruby mocking and stubbing library, Mocha, that I first mentioned a while ago. Here are the release notes:

  • Small change to SetupAndTeardown#teardown_stubs suggested by Luke Redpath to allow use of Stubba with RSpec.
  • Reorganized directory structure and extracted addition of setup and teardown methods into SmartTestCase mini-library.
  • Addition of auto-verify for Mocha (but not Stubba). This means there is more significance in the choice of expects or stubs in that any expects on a mock will automatically get verified.

So instead of…

wotsit = Mocha.new
wotsit.expects(:thingummy).with(5).returns(10)
doobrey = Doobrey.new(wotsit)
doobrey.hoojamaflip
wotsit.verify

you need to do…

wotsit = mock()
wotsit.expects(:thingummy).with(5).returns(10)
doobrey = Doobrey.new(wotsit)
doobrey.hoojamaflip
# no need to verify

There are also shortcuts as follows…

instead of…

wotsit = Mocha.new
wotsit.expects(:thingummy).returns(10)
wotsit.expects(:summat).returns(25)

you can have…

wotsit = mock(:thingummy => 5, :summat => 25)

and instead of…

wotsit = Mocha.new
wotsit.stubs(:thingummy).returns(10)
wotsit.stubs(:summat).returns(25)

you can have…

wotsit = stub(:thingummy => 5, :summat => 25)