------ art_150322_24790364.1173261863355 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 07/03/07, Raymond O'Connor <nappin713 / yahoo.com> wrote: > > Is there a way to have mocha raise an exception the first time an stub > is called, and then return a value the second time it is called? > > First example, I'm trying to connect to a server and test the case where > my first attempt raises a 'Server busy' exception or something of that > sort. So I wait, then retry and then the second time the connection is > successful. results lambda { raise ServerBusy }, lambda { return true } ] object.stubs(:connect).returns { lambda { results.shift.call } } You might be interested in another recent thread ( http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mocha-developer/2007-March/000225.html) which discusses how we might come up with a syntax to make this easier. -- James. http://blog.floehopper.org ------ art_150322_24790364.1173261863355--