I have a user model and a follower model, such that a user can have many followers. So in schema of follower model I have user_id column and a follower_by_user_id column. So in follower model a use...

I'm using the factory_girl plugin in my rails application. For each model, I have a corresponding ruby file containing the factory data e.g. Factory.define :valid_thing, :class => Thing do |t| ...

How can I define a normal method for use in one of my FactoryGirl factories? For instance: FactoryGirl.define do def silly_horse_name verbs = %w[brunches dribbles haggles meddles] nouns = %w[la...

When running my specs, I am stopped by a FactoryGirl error before rspec can even iterate through them. Finished in 0.18709 seconds (files took 1.57 seconds to load) 0 examples, 0 failures /.rben...

I am trying to get factory girl to run with rspec in my rails 4.1.1 app. Problem is when I run rspec in my command line, i get Failure/Error: verse = build(:verse) ArgumentError: Factory not regis...

I am trying to test the before_update callback of the model bellow. models/option.rb: class Option < ApplicationRecord belongs_to :activity has_many :suboptions, class_name: "Option", forei...

I am trying to generate a new factory inside a module and I basically required require 'rails/generators' and I am calling the command below. Notice that it creates the file inside the test fol...

I have model Person that has many Images, where images has a Paperclip attachment field called data, an abbreviated version displayed below: class Person has_many :images ... end class Image ha...

My factories.rb file became too big to maintain over time and I'm now trying to split it across many files in factories directory. The problem is that I don't know how to deal with dependencies. T...

I have the following associations class Training < ApplicationRecord has_many :attendances has_many :attendees, through: :attendances end class Attendance < ApplicationRecord belongs_to ...

I have a web service that serves Ads to several different clients. The structure of the Ad varies between clients, and therefore, I am using namespaces for my models and controllers by the client n...

I've been banging my head over this. I want to be able to overwrite attributes on top of traits. I've been reading the documentation and some internet examples but I can't get it to work. This is ...

This is probably silly simple but I can't find an example anywhere. I have two factories: FactoryGirl.define do factory :profile do user title "director" bio "I am very good at things" link...

In a Rails application, given three models User, Article and Reviewer with the following relationships and validations: class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :articles has_many :reviewers ...

Solution Thanks to this gist form Steven Harman, I got it working. devise_mail_helpers.rb module Features module MailHelpers def last_email ActionMailer::Base.deliveries[0] end # Can be us...

In my model, I have an after_create callback that triggers the method: class Job < ActiveRecord::Base after_create :update_vanity_url private def update_vanity_url self.vanity_url = '/job...

I use: gem 'rails', '3.2.11' gem 'rspec-rails', '2.13.2' gem 'webrat', '0.7.3' gem 'factory_girl_rails', '4.1.0' gem 'spork', '~> 0.9.0.rc' I want to test my HP where I always have a link to ...

When I boot up my rails console in development I see FactoryGirl creating objects. Clearly I'm doing it wrong, but what's the right way to do this? This code makes my tests work... # tests/factori...

I'm setting up an Artist model that has nameand birth_name attributes. In some cases, an artist's stage name is synonomous with their real name, vice-versa. What I'd like to do in my factory is use...

I'm working with a Rails 2.2 project working to update it. I'm replacing existing fixtures with factories (using factory_girl) and have had some issues. The problem is with models that represent ta...

I have two models (ModelA and ModelB), and FactoryGirl factories for each. I want the factory for ModelB to be able to (A) create test data, and to (B) build (without saving to database) sample dat...

I'm trying to use FactoryGirl gem inside my App in development mode (it's for mailer tests more) with rails_email_preview gem. It works but only on initial page load, after reloading/refreshing th...

Suppose I have a model user, which has a uniqueness constraint on the email field If I call Factory(:user) once all is well, but if I call it a second time it'll fail with an "entry already exists...

I have the following factory defined for a model: factory :page do association :user, factory: :standard_user association :post, factory: [:short_post] after :create do |model| model.post.user...

I have four models: User, Product, Ownership and Location. Userand Product have one Location, and Location belongs to User and to Product (Polymorphic model). I want to use FactoryGirl to create p...