Factories

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Introduction

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Factory Bot is a helper for writing factories for Ruby tests. It was previously known as Factory Girl. For older versions, use FactoryGirl instead of FactoryBot.

• Factory Bot documentation (rubydoc.info)
• Getting started (github.com)
• Source code (github.com)

Defining factories

FactoryBot.define do
  factory :user do
    first_name { 'John' }
    last_name  { 'Doe' }
    birthdate  { 21.years.ago }
    admin { false }

    sequence(:username) { |n| "user#{n}" }
  end
end

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See: Defining factories

Extra options

Custom class names

factory :user, class: 'User' do
  ···
end

Aliases

factory :user, aliases: [:author] do
  ···
end

Using

Build a model

FactoryBot.build(:user)

Other ways

build(:user)           # → model (not saved)
create(:user)          # → model (saved)
attributes_for(:user)  # → hash
build_stubbed(:user)   # stubbed out attributes

With options

build(:user, name: 'John')

Lists

create_list(:user, 3)
build_list(:user, 3)

Associations

Defining

factory :post do
  association :author, factory: :user
  association :author, factory: [:user, :admin]
end

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or

factory :post do
  author  # assumes there's a factory :author
end

After-create hooks

factory :post do
  after :create do |post|
    create :theme, post: post             # has_one
    create_list :comment, 3, post: post   # has_many
  end
end

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Other features

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Traits

factory :user do
  trait :admin do
    admin { true }
  end
end

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create :user, :admin

Traits allow you to group attributes together.
See: Traits

Nested factories

factory :user do
  first_name { 'John' }

  factory :sample_user do
    first_name { FFaker::Name.first_name }
  end
end

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create :sample_user

See: Inheritance

Sub-factories

factory :user do
  ···
end

factory :sample_user, parent: :user do
  first_name { FFaker::Name.first_name }
end

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create :sample_user

Works the same as nested factories.

Options (transients)

factory :user do
  transient do
    upcased { true }
  end

  after :create do |user, options|
    user.name.upcase! if options.upcased
  end
end

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create(user, upcased: true)

Transient attributes will not get passed to the model, but will be available in after-create hooks.
See: Transient attributes

Paths

• test/factories.rb
• spec/factories.rb
• test/factories/*.rb
• spec/factories/*.rb

Place your factories in these locations.
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See also

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• http://rubydoc.info/gems/factory_bot/file/GETTING_STARTED.md