Stubbing constants in Rspec

2011-07-20T17:10:00.001-07:00

This blog talks about stubbing constants in RSpec. The posted solution only works for global constants.

The following version works with all constants.

def parse(constant)
  source, _, constant_name = constant.to_s.rpartition('::')

  [source.constantize, constant_name]
end

def with_constants(constants, &block)
  saved_constants = {}
  constants.each do |constant, val|
    source_object, const_name = parse(constant)

    saved_constants[constant] = source_object.const_get(const_name)
    Kernel::silence_warnings { source_object.const_set(const_name, val) }
  end

  begin
    block.call
  ensure
    constants.each do |constant, val|
      source_object, const_name = parse(constant)

      Kernel::silence_warnings { source_object.const_set(const_name, saved_constants[constant]) }
    end
  end
end

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Stubbing constants in Rspec