Replacing methods

There are times when it is useful to replace a method with a custom lambda or function, rather than simply stubbing it out, in order to return custom values based on provided arguments or a global value that changes between method calls.

flexmock(plane).should_receive("set_speed").replace_with(lambda x: x == 5)

There is also shorthand for this, similar to the shorthand for should_receive/and_return:

flexmock(plane, set_speed=lambda x: x == 5)

Note

Whenever the return value provided to the key=value shorthand is a callable (such as lambda), flexmock expands it to should_receive().replace_with() rather than should_receive().and_return().