[LRUG] Stubbing Time.zone.now

[Paul Bowsher]

Have you tried Timecop instead? http://github.com/jtrupiano/timecop

I'm using it (not within Cucumber, mind) and it works great.

Paul Bowsher


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Will Tomlins <
will.tomlins at unboxedconsulting.com> wrote:

>  Hi People,
>
> I'm having a strange issue with stubbing time and I was wondering if anyone
> here could shed a little light on the issue.
>
> Firstly I am trying to stub Time.zone.now in Cucumber  # Waits while the
> calls of "*don't stub time in cucumber*" die down #.  So the feature I'm
> writing explicitly required different behaviour based on the current time,
> and I would like the language of the feature to reflect this.
>
> What I have at the moment:
>
> When /^I time-travel to "([^\"]*)"$/ do |time_string|
>   time = Time.zone.parse(time_string)
>   Time.zone.stub!(:now).and_return(time)
> end
>
> Then "I return to the present day" do
>   Time.zone.unstub!(:now)
> end
>
> And my features go along these lines:
>
>     When I time-travel to "2010/01/01 10:00:00"
>     And I go to the home page
>     Then I should see XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>     Then I return to the present day
>
>
> And I've got 2 scenarios running which use these quantum leaps.  Each
> scenario runs and passes when run on their own, but the second will fail if
> the two are run together.  After a bit more digging I found that
> Time.zone.now cannot be stubbed if it has previously been unstubbed.
>
> Thus:
>
> (rdb:1) Time.zone.stub!(:now).and_return(:something)
> #
> <Proc:0x051b55a8@/Users/will/Sites/five-tv/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/mocks/message_expectation.rb:61><Proc:0x051b55a8@/Users/will/Sites/five-tv/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/mocks/message_expectation.rb:61>
> (rdb:1) Time.zone.now
> :something
>
> (rdb:1) Time.zone.stub!(:now).and_return(:something_else)
> #
> <Proc:0x051b55a8@/Users/will/Sites/five-tv/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/mocks/message_expectation.rb:61><Proc:0x051b55a8@/Users/will/Sites/five-tv/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/mocks/message_expectation.rb:61>
> (rdb:1) Time.zone.now
> :something_else
>
> (rdb:1) Time.zone.unstub!(:now)
> #<Spec::Mocks::MessageExpectation:0x512c5dc @at_most=nil,
> @exception_to_raise=nil, @args_to_yield_were_cloned=false.......
> (rdb:1) Time.zone.now
> Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:28:56 BST +01:00
>
> (rdb:1) Time.zone.stub!(:now).and_return(:another_thing)
> #
> <Proc:0x051b55a8@/Users/will/Sites/five-tv/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/mocks/message_expectation.rb:61><Proc:0x051b55a8@/Users/will/Sites/five-tv/vendor/gems/rspec-1.3.0/lib/spec/mocks/message_expectation.rb:61>
> (rdb:1) Time.zone.now
> Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:29:12 BST +01:00
>
> I have to unstub because the time stub seems to carry across scenarios.
>
> Has anyone else had this issue, or know of any other way to decently handle
> present time in cucumber?
>
> Thanks,
> Will
>
>
>
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