How to say “should_receive” more times in RSpec

Question

I have this in my test

Project.should_receive(:find).with(@project).and_return(@project)

but when object receive that method call two times

Answer 1

should_receive, as opposed to any_instance, expects that the class receives message the specified number of times.

any_instance on the other hand is generally used for stubbing a method.

So the first case is an expectation that we would like to test, while the second one is getting past a method to the next line so we can move on.