How to remove "Deprecation: stub!" Deprecated Use a stub instead. "Message?

Question

The question is a bit odd, but what I want is an alternative for stub! in Rspec, which does not give a failure warning.

Scenario:

I use stub! to drown out some helper methods in my helper specification.

for instance

 stub!(:t_with_partner_lookup).and_return("test") 

Rspec, than suggests using a stub without an exclamation mark.

So I write (as suggested):

 stub(:t_with_partner_lookup).and_return("test") 

However, this causes an error:

 Stub :t_with_partner_lookup received unexpected message :and_return with ("test") 

In another question I found, I had to use the helper. prefix helper. . I did this, but he did not remove the obsolescence warning, but caused an error.

 helper.stub(:t_with_partner_lookup).and_return("test") 

It produces:

 undefined method `t_with_partner_lookup' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_1::Nested_3:0x00000103256d50> 

I also tried this syntax, but this results in the same error as above:

 helper.stub(:t_with_partner_lookup){"test"} 

What is the correct syntax for creating a helper method?

Gemstones I use :

• rails 3.2.17
• the latest version of rspec-rails

Ruby version 2.1.0

Answer 1

Solved it using allow syntax:

 allow(self).to receive(:t_with_partner_lookup).and_return("test") 

Answer 2

I can offer you a try

 helper = Object.new.extend SomeHelper helper.stub(:t_with_partner_lookup).and_return('test')