Sharing factories via a gem?

[Justin Wiley]

I have a set of models that are shared between Rails applications, and currently live in a gem.  I would like to share the factories that are associated with them as well.

Whats the best way to do this?  Don't necessarily want to have to write a generator and dump them out, would prefer to include them somehow.

Any ideas?  Thanks!
Justin

[Joe Ferris]

Hey Justin,

I agree that having a generator copy them isn't ideal, especially since you can now modify existing factories.

I'd put them in lib/your_library/factories.rb, so users can just do `require your_library/factories` in their own factory file.

-Joe

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[Justin Wiley]

Ahhh, makes total sense.  Thanks Joe!

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