var stub = (function () {

var _ = require('underscore/underscore.js');
var exports = {};

// Stubs don't do any magical modifications to your namespace.  They
// just provide you a function that records what arguments get passed
// to it.  To use stubs as something more like "spies," use something
// like set_global() to override your namespace.

exports.make_stub = function () {
    var self = {};
    self.num_calls = 0;

    self.f = function () {
        self.last_call_args = _.clone(arguments);
        self.num_calls += 1;
        return true;
    };

    self.get_args = function () {
        var param_names = arguments;
        var result = {};

        _.each(param_names, function (name, i) {
            result[name] = self.last_call_args[i];
        });

        return result;
    };

    return self;
};

exports.with_stub = function (f) {
    var stub = exports.make_stub();
    f(stub);
    assert.equal(stub.num_calls, 1);
};

(function test_ourselves() {
    exports.with_stub(function (stub) {
        stub.f('blue', 42);
        var args = stub.get_args('color', 'n');
        assert.equal(args.color, 'blue');
        assert.equal(args.n, 42);
    });
}());

return exports;
}());
module.exports = stub;