Override
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The as-simple-as-possible-but-not-simpler stubbing library.

Description
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This is the pure esence of the stubbing concept: it takes an object,
a hash of methods/results, and proceeds to rewrite each method in the
object. It can be used as a stubbing strategy in most cases, and I'd
say that cases that don't fit this pattern have a very bad code smell,
because are either dealing with internals or with side effects.

Usage
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    require 'override'

    @user = User.spawn
    override(@user, :name => "Foobar", :email => "foobar@example.org")
    override(User, :find => @user)

Or alternatively:

    override(User, :find => override(User.spawn, :name => "Foobar, :email => "foobar@example.org"))

In case you don't know what spawn means, check my other library for
testing at http://github.com/soveran/spawner.

Installation
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    $ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com (you only have to do this once)
    $ sudo gem install soveran-override

Thanks
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Thanks to Tim Goh for his advice of using a hash for rewriting multiple
methods at once.

License
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Copyright (c) 2009 Michel Martens

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