require File.expand_path('../../../spec_helper', __FILE__) require File.expand_path('../../../fixtures/constants', __FILE__) describe "Module#remove_const" do it "removes the constant specified by a String or Symbol from the receiver's constant table" do ConstantSpecs::ModuleM::CS_CONST252 = :const252 ConstantSpecs::ModuleM::CS_CONST252.should == :const252 ConstantSpecs::ModuleM.send :remove_const, :CS_CONST252 lambda { ConstantSpecs::ModuleM::CS_CONST252 }.should raise_error(NameError) ConstantSpecs::ModuleM::CS_CONST253 = :const253 ConstantSpecs::ModuleM::CS_CONST253.should == :const253 ConstantSpecs::ModuleM.send :remove_const, "CS_CONST253" lambda { ConstantSpecs::ModuleM::CS_CONST253 }.should raise_error(NameError) end it "returns the value of the removed constant" do ConstantSpecs::ModuleM::CS_CONST254 = :const254 ConstantSpecs::ModuleM.send(:remove_const, :CS_CONST254).should == :const254 end it "raises a NameError and does not call #const_missing if the constant is not defined" do ConstantSpecs.should_not_receive(:const_missing) lambda { ConstantSpecs.send(:remove_const, :Nonexistent) }.should raise_error(NameError) end it "raises a NameError and does not call #const_missing if the constant is not defined directly in the module" do begin ConstantSpecs::ModuleM::CS_CONST255 = :const255 ConstantSpecs::ContainerA::CS_CONST255.should == :const255 ConstantSpecs::ContainerA.should_not_receive(:const_missing) lambda do ConstantSpecs::ContainerA.send :remove_const, :CS_CONST255 end.should raise_error(NameError) ensure ConstantSpecs::ModuleM.send :remove_const, "CS_CONST255" end end it "raises a NameError if the name does not start with a capital letter" do lambda { ConstantSpecs.send :remove_const, "name" }.should raise_error(NameError) end it "raises a NameError if the name starts with a non-alphabetic character" do lambda { ConstantSpecs.send :remove_const, "__CONSTX__" }.should raise_error(NameError) lambda { ConstantSpecs.send :remove_const, "@Name" }.should raise_error(NameError) lambda { ConstantSpecs.send :remove_const, "!Name" }.should raise_error(NameError) lambda { ConstantSpecs.send :remove_const, "::Name" }.should raise_error(NameError) end it "raises a NameError if the name contains non-alphabetic characters except '_'" do ConstantSpecs::ModuleM::CS_CONST256 = :const256 ConstantSpecs::ModuleM.send :remove_const, "CS_CONST256" lambda { ConstantSpecs.send :remove_const, "Name=" }.should raise_error(NameError) lambda { ConstantSpecs.send :remove_const, "Name?" }.should raise_error(NameError) end it "calls #to_str to convert the given name to a String" do ConstantSpecs::CS_CONST257 = :const257 name = mock("CS_CONST257") name.should_receive(:to_str).and_return("CS_CONST257") ConstantSpecs.send(:remove_const, name).should == :const257 end it "raises a TypeError if conversion to a String by calling #to_str fails" do name = mock('123') lambda { ConstantSpecs.send :remove_const, name }.should raise_error(TypeError) name.should_receive(:to_str).and_return(123) lambda { ConstantSpecs.send :remove_const, name }.should raise_error(TypeError) end it "is a private method" do Module.private_methods.should include(:remove_const) end it "returns nil when removing autoloaded constant" do ConstantSpecs.autoload :AutoloadedConstant, 'a_file' ConstantSpecs.send(:remove_const, :AutoloadedConstant).should be_nil end end