Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

I’ve been trying to write a unit test for an FSM, that makes a call to a gen_server:

Result = gen_server:call(Pid, foo).

I wanted to fake the response to the call, without needing to spin up a gen_server instance. My first attempt didn’t really get me anywhere:

Result = ok,
Pid = spawn(fun() ->
    receive
        _ -> Result
    end
end).

But some digging through the OTP source revealed the solution:

Result = ok,
Pid = spawn(fun() ->
    receive
        {_, {Caller, Ref}, _} -> Caller ! {Ref, Result}
    end
end).