How to stub Restul-authentication's current_user method?

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Published on 2010-05-12T18:51:19Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 18:54 UTC
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Hi there,

I'm trying to run the following spec:

describe UsersController, "GET friends" do

  it "should call current_user.friends" do
    user = mock_model(User)
    user.should_receive(:friends)
    UsersController.stub!(:current_user).and_return(user)
    get :friends
  end

end

My controller looks like this

  def friends
    @friends = current_user.friends
    respond_to do |format|
      format.html
    end
  end

The problem is that I cannot stub the current_user method, as when I run the test, I get:

Spec::Mocks::MockExpectationError in 'UsersController GET friends should call current
_user.friends'
Mock "User_1001" expected :friends with (any args) once, but received it 0 times[0m
./spec/controllers/users_controller_spec.rb:44:

current_user is a method from Restful-authentication, which is included in this controller. How am I supposed to test this controller?

Thanks in advance

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