How can I supress warning "removing `initialize' may cause serious problems" in rspec?

Question

I have a test that does:

allow_any_instance_of(GoogleMapsService::Client).to receive(:initialize)

and I'm getting warning: removing 'initialize' may cause serious problems, but I didn't find any other way to stub this.

How can I solve it in another way so I don't get the warning or how can I silence the warning?

Thank you very much

Why don't you call `:new` instead of `:initialize` ? – Kedarnag Mukanahallipatna Sep 17 '18 at 09:06 — Kedarnag Mukanahallipatna, Sep 17 '18 at 09:06

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 07 '19 at 09:01

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The #initialize method is called on the instance while the #new method is called on the class so you could do something like:

allow(GoogleMapsService::Client).to receive(:new)

See This issue for more context.

answered Jan 07 '19 at 09:01

Luc

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 09 '20 at 08:08

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I mean why don't you do this

allow(GoogleMapsService::Client).to receive(:new)

instead of

allow(GoogleMapsService::Client).to receive(:initialize)

edited Jul 09 '20 at 08:08

ThangLeQuoc

answered Sep 17 '18 at 09:06

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Mmm that doesn't work: `GoogleMapsService::Client does not implement #new` – Leticia Esperon Sep 19 '18 at 21:39
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@LeticiaEsperon, That is because `.new` is called on the class itself rather than on an instance of the class. Try using `allow(GoogleMapsService::Client).to receive(:new)`. – Mark Schneider May 17 '19 at 08:17

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