Stubbing Chained Methods with Rspec

Question

I want to call a named_scope that will only return one record, but the named_scope returns an array, that\'s not a big deal as I can just chain it with .first:

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Answer 1

I figured something out.

Client.stub!(:named_scope).and_return(@clients = mock([Client]))
@clients.stub!(:first).and_return(@client = mock(Client))

which allows me to call my controller:

@client = Client.named_scope(param).first

It works, but is there a better solution?

EDIT:

The release of rspec 1.2.6 allows us to use stub_chain meaning it can now be:

Client.stub_chain(:named_scope, :chained_call).and_return(@clients = [mock(Client)])

This was top of my head, as always check the api for specifics :)