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Apr 3, 2011 · Same thing for factory_girl. Rails support was separated from factory_girl proper and moved into a separate gem, so using it without Rails is also simple. Its standard README should be sufficient. For cleaning the database, use the database_cleaner gem.
Jul 16, 2015 · How to use FactoryGirl with ActiveRecord transaction rails. Asked 9 years, 1 month ago. Modified 9 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 240 times. 0. I Use Factory Girl a lot to create fake data in my database.
Apr 21, 2015 · Many of us wonder how the FactoryGirl create ActiveRecord objects and how it deals with the associations we set in the Models. Actually, it deals in straight forward way. You set association in factory definition like that you already set in the models and every thing is done by FactoryGirl.
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Developers often define their models around their database tables but as your application grows and becomes more interconnected, you will begin to pull data from sources outside your own database. Make no mistake: the Ruby objects that encapsulate this external data are still models, even without your ORM of choice. I'll share examples of two exter...
The application uses OmniAuth to register and authenticate users via Facebook. OmniAuth documentation describes the structure of the Auth Hash returned from Facebook. This is our external data. OmniAuth wraps this hash in a class called OmniAuth::AuthHash. That is our model. When a user authenticates via Facebook, the application either finds an ex...
Balanced is a payment processing company designed for marketplaces. They can process payments from customers and payouts to sellers. They have a robust API with its own Ruby wrapper. The API is our external data and the wrapper's resource classes are our models. Defining factories for these external resources is done similarly to the Facebook auth ...
Using Factory Girl for API-backed models like the Balanced models above allows you to go further and stub how the models find their instances. Even though we skip_create in our Balanced factories, the after(:create)callback can still be fired. If we tap into that callback, we can stub the Balanced library's find method to return the instance we jus...
FactoryGirl enables you to: Create new model instances from a fixture file. Interact with the test database to create test data. Automatically generate fixtures when you run Rails generators.
May 31, 2017 · FactoryGirl is a way to generate objects via a common interface and language. More specifically, it is for generating ActiveRecord objects and saving them to the DB. By using FactoryGirl you...
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factory-girl has a solution: sequences. Instead of providing a hardcoded value, we can tell factory-girl to instead use a sequence. A slight modification to the model-factory definition: factory.define('User', User, { email: factory.sequence('User.email', n => `dummy-user-${n}@my-domain.com`), password: 'some-password' });
