How to mock policy_group in ChefSpec?

[mrmarbury]

I have a recipe that assembles a data bag item name depending on node.policy_group. Now I need a way to test this. My first idea is to simple mock the policy_group in my specs. But how would I do that? I didn't come across anything in the ChefSpec README. A hint is appreciated since we are currently in some kind of deadlock here and don't know how to test this at all. Testing this with test-kitchen seems very tedious.

[petracvv]

I've been banging my head against this for a while now but I think I have a way that works:

before do
  chef_runner.node.policy_group = <your-policy-group>
end

The above will mock the policy group in your chef run (for the recipe code to work)

If you need to access the policy group of the node in chefspec tests I think accessing it the same way (chef_runner.node.policy_group) will get you the value.