Rspec and stubbing arrays

I'm having a little problem figuring out how to stub this scenario:

my controller has this code in it:

if current_user.foos << @foo

and my spec is giving me errors about a missing stub:

Mock 'foos' received unexpected message :<< with <TheFooObject>

Also related to this issue, I'm using mock_model but it's not pulling in the methods from the model I've specified and I have to specify every single stub that I want to use. Is this normal behavior?

Anyway, I also tried to do

@user = mock_model(User) @user.foos.stub!(:<<).and_return()

which still gave me the same dreadful error. Can anyone assist me with my two problems?

TIA -L