Hi Jono No blog posts yet - it's something that Pete's been working on, especially at Rails Camp this past weekend. If you have a look at an older thread, at the last email, you'll get some idea - Ben and Xavier's work has been an influence in Machinist's current development.
http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania/browse_thread/thread/55f96edfc1eafa92/8fb0348ee8dc16fa -- Pat On 21/04/2010, at 2:04 PM, Jono wrote: > @Ryan > > have you used FG with the machinist syntax? > > i.e. take a look at the "Alternate Syntaxes" section in here: > http://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl > > Do you know if FG still suffers from the same issues under the hood > once you switch syntaxes? I'll probably spike this anyway but I'm just > curious if you've already played with it. > > @Pat > > Machinist v2 sounds interesting! Are there any blog posts out there > with details about it? > > Thanks, > Jono. > > On Apr 21, 1:50 pm, Ryan Bigg <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >> athttp://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]. > 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. 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