Ruby EventMachine testing - ruby

Question

My first question concerning Ruby.
I'm trying to test EventMachine interaction inside the Reactor loop - I guess it could be classified as "functional" testing.
Say I have two classes - a server and a client. And I want to test both sides - I need to be sure about their interaction.
Server:
require 'singleton'
class EchoServer < EM::Connection
include EM::Protocols::LineProtocol
def post_init
puts "-- someone connected to the echo server!"
end
def receive_data data
send_data ">>>you sent: #{data}"
close_connection if data =~ /quit/i
end
def unbind
puts "-- someone disconnected from the echo server!"
end
end
Client:
class EchoClient < EM::Connection
include EM::Protocols::LineProtocol
def post_init
send_data "Hello"
end
def receive_data(data)
#message = data
p data
end
def unbind
puts "-- someone disconnected from the echo server!"
end
end
So, I've tried different approaches and came up with nothing.
The fundamental question is - could I somehow test my code with RSpec, using should_recive?
EventMachine parameter should be a class or a module, so I can't send instantiated/mocked code inside. Right?
Something like this?
describe 'simple rspec test' do
it 'should pass the test' do
EventMachine.run {
EventMachine::start_server "127.0.0.1", 8081, EchoServer
puts 'running echo server on 8081'
EchoServer.should_receive(:receive_data)
EventMachine.connect '127.0.0.1', 8081, EchoClient
EventMachine.add_timer 1 do
puts 'Second passed. Stop loop.'
EventMachine.stop_event_loop
end
}
end
end
And, if not, how would you do it with EM::SpecHelper? I have this code using it, and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
describe 'when server is run and client sends data' do
include EM::SpecHelper
default_timeout 2
def start_server
EM.start_server('0.0.0.0', 12345) { |ws|
yield ws if block_given?
}
end
def start_client
client = EM.connect('0.0.0.0', 12345, FakeWebSocketClient)
yield client if block_given?
return client
end
describe "examples from the spec" do
it "should accept a single-frame text message" do
em {
start_server
start_client { |client|
client.onopen {
client.send_data("\x04\x05Hello")
}
}
}
end
end
end
Tried a lot of variations of these tests and I just can't figure it out. I'm sure I'm missing something here...
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

The simplest solution that I can think of is to change this:
EchoServer.should_receive(:receive_data)
To this:
EchoServer.any_instance.should_receive(:receive_data)
Since EM is expecting a class to start a server, the above any_instance trick will expect any instance of that class to receive that method.
The EMSpecHelper example (while being official/standard) is quite convoluted, I'd rather stick with the first rspec and use any_instance, just for simplicity's sake.