How to Stub ActionController#render for Testing
Sometimes you just want to ensure that render will get called with the correct parameters in a test. Say, for instance, if you have your own special site_render method that examines subdomains or other info about the current request, and then does the real render based on that. This little test helper will override the render method to just return the options hash it was called with in a block, and then it will restore the original method to allow other functional tests to work correctly:
[ruby]
stub out render to just return the options hash it was called with, to make it testable
def stub_render_method
@controller.class.class_eval do
def render(options = nil)
options
end
end
yield
ensure
@controller.class.send(:remove_method, :render)
end
[/ruby]
Call it like so, with a made up “special_render” that takes some params and then calls render based on that: [ruby] stub_render_method do assert_equal({:partial => “foo/baz/about”}, @controller.special_render(:baz => true, :partial => “about”)) assert_equal({:partial => “foo/doop/about”}, @controller.special_render(:doop => true, :partial => “about”)) # bad parameter, render gets called with default params and probably an error message assert_equal “”, @controller.special_render(:partial => “unknown_bad_parameter”) end [/ruby]
Easy.