rspec-mocks is used to create dynamic "doubles", which stand in for real objects in examples. You can stub return values and/or set message expectations: describe Account do context "when closed" do it "logs an account closed message" do logger = double() account = Account.new account.logger = logger logger.should_receive(:account_closed).with(account) account.close end end end ## Issues The documentation for rspec-mocks is a work in progress. We'll be adding Cucumber features over time, and clarifying existing ones. If you have specific features you'd like to see added, find the existing documentation incomplete or confusing, or, better yet, wish to write a missing Cucumber feature yourself, please [submit an issue](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues) or a [pull request](http://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks).