On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Julian Leviston <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi All, > > I'm hoping someone can help me out here. > > I'm building a suite of tests for my (reasonably large) Rails app. I'm > using Rails 3.2 and I *was* using FactoryGirl, but I found that it wasn't > able to build me the object graphs that I needed. > > (Basically it doesn't have a feature to re-use existing objects that are > created in the database in previous steps). > > I've got a Model that references three other models, two of which > reference one other Model each. I want to simply call FactoryGirl.create on > the first model, and have it intelligently build the related objects... the > only issue is some of those objects should not be re-created. > > Essentially what I want is sets of remembered named objects that can be > referred to each other in a factory, but FactoryGirl nor Machinist seem to > do this at all. Machinist comes closest to what I want to do in that it > lets you override the attributes (and associations), yet it seems borked in > that Machinist 2's make! method doesn't seem to create the related objects > in for Rails 3.2. > > Can anyone help out here? I'm trying to use the path of least resistance > to doing BDD (or at least putting it on after the fact) and I seem to be > getting stuck at the start of my object graph in order to do some of the > set up for my steps / tests. > Could you show the Factory you are using now and how that exactly it fails or what you cannot do? I presume the problem can be solved. I use a mix of FactoryGirl for creating short lived objects (mostly in memory, sometimes in the database) and some static data in the database where I find that more appropriate. HTH, Peter -- *** Available for a new project *** Peter Vandenabeele http://twitter.com/peter_v http://rails.vandenabeele.com http://coderwall.com/peter_v -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
