Is receive(:method).never completely equivalent to not_to receive(:method)

Question

Using RSpec 3.7.0. I would like to know whether writing

expect(instance).not_to receive(:method)

is completely identical to writing

expect(instance).to receive(:method).never

or if there are any (even subtle) differences or side effects.

Answer 1

As per this link https://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks/issues/895 You can use either of these to cause an example to fail if a method is called Author @myronmarston also provided an example