I should clarify what I mean by syntax, sorry. By syntax I mean that in factory_girl you can do this to define a named factory:
Factory.define :admin, :class => User do |u| u.admin true end This gives you access to Factory(:admin). But now think about it like this: say you want to set up a three-level relationship between Account, Project and Tickets. You want to create three different setups for testing. To do this in Factory Girl, you'd have to do: Factory.define :one, :class => Account do |a| a.name "Blah" end And then you *could try* to do: Factory.define :one, :class => Project do |p| But you'd be overriding the first Factory. You'd instead have to call it something like account_one and project_one, which is just fugly. In Machinist however, named blueprints are done on the class so you CAN define a blueprint with the same name for two different classes: Account.blueprint(:one) do name "Blah" end Project.blueprint(:one) do name "Longest project ever." end And that, is why I love Machinist. On 21 April 2010 13:39, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > Agreed - I find the syntax of Machinist to be far nicer than Factory Girl. > And there are some *awesome* improvements coming in Machinist v2. > > -- > Pat > > On 21/04/2010, at 1:30 PM, Ryan Bigg wrote: > > > Another +1 to Machinist, use it everywhere. Not because Pete is awesome, > but I prefer the syntax for defining named blueprints over named factories. > > > > On 21 April 2010 13:13, Julian Doherty <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Using machinist for a few projects at the moment (mainly because it's > pretty useful, not just cause Pete Yandell would give me a disapproving > sneer if I didn't :P ) > > > > > > On 21 April 2010 12:59, Jonathan Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: > > At Railscamp I think he mentioned that he was working on Machinist 2, > looking forward to checking it out! > > > > Jonathan > > > > > > On 21 April 2010 12:55, James Healy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jono wrote: > > > Does anyone know if there any significant differences between the two > > > libraries apart from syntax that make one stand out from the other? > > > > There's at least one significant difference, Machinist is by Pete > > Yandell ('our Pete'). > > > > Piffle at technical merits, buy Australian! :) > > > > -- James Healy <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:53:27 +1000 > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > > > > > -- > > Ryan Bigg / Radar > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- Ryan Bigg / Radar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
