separate use of factory_girl and factory_girl_rails?

[Martin Streicher]

I have an application that uses Redis::Objects in some models (no AR) and ActiveRecord::Base for traditional Rails models. Is there a way for me to use FactoryGirl for the former yet FactoryGirlRails for the latter? 

[Joe Ferris]

Hey Martin,

The factory_girl_rails gem doesn't change the way your factories or models work. It just hooks into Rails to provide some nice things, like:

* Autoloading factories after the environment is initialized

* Replacing fixtures with factories

* Providing generators

That means you can use factory_girl_rails with Redis::Objects or other ORMs just as well as factory_girl.

-Joe

On Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Martin Streicher wrote:

I have an application that uses Redis::Objects in some models (no AR) and ActiveRecord::Base for traditional Rails models. Is there a way for me to use FactoryGirl for the former yet FactoryGirlRails for the latter? 

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[Martin Streicher]

Hello, Joe. Thanks for the prompt response. I do see this...

  1) GamesController show do

     Failure/Error: g = create :game

     NoMethodError:

       undefined method `save!' for #<Game:0x007fe0562f6438>

     # ./spec/controllers/games_controller_spec.rb:6:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'

Game is not an ActiveRecord::Base model. 

[Joe Ferris]

Hey Martin,

By default, factory_girl assumes you want to call save! on your model to create it. You can overrider that using to_create:

    FactoryGirl.define do

      factory :game do

        # attributes

        to_create { |instance| instance.commit }

      end

    end

-Joe

[Martin Streicher]

Thanks. And I assume here .commit is whatever method name saves the model, not necessarily something required for Redis? 

[Joe Ferris]

Hey Martin,

Yes, sorry - I don't actually know how you save things in that particular ORM, so you'd substitute your own method for "commit" there.

-Joe

[Martin Streicher]

Got it. Redis is in-memory, so on_create would be a NOP. 

On May 17, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Joe Ferris wrote:

Hey Martin,

Yes, sorry - I don't actually know how you save things in that particular ORM, so you'd substitute your own method for "commit" there.

-Joe

[Joe Ferris]

If there's no extra save step, you can also just use build instead of create.