Effective Testing with RSpec 3

Stubject (Stubbing the Subject)

You may occasionally see a test case that uses allow or expect on the same object it’s testing. Sam Phippen refers to this antipattern as the stubject code smell, since you’re stubbing methods on the test subject.^[102]

For example, consider the following code for a discussion forum that sends users a summary of what’s happened over the past day:

15-using-test-doubles-effectively/03/daily_summary_email/lib/daily_summary.rb

class DailySummary
  def send_daily_summary(user_email, todays_messages)
    message_count = todays_messages.count
    thread_count  = todays_messages.map { |m| m[:thread_id] }.uniq.count
    subject       = 'Your daily message summary'
    body          = "You missed #{message_count} messages " \