Intermittent InvalidSalt exception

[Khash Sajadi]

Since upgrading to Ruby 1.9.2 (Rails 3.0.3), our RSpce (2.7.0) tests using FactoryGirl (2.3.2) fail due to BCrypt::Errors::InvalidSalt upon creating of user fixture. Here is what we use for creating fixtures:

Factory.define :user, :class => User do |u|

  u.email 'a...@other.com'

  u.api_key '123456'

  u.password 'password'

end

It used to work fine, but now tests that have the line user = Factory.create(:user) fail randomly with different tests failing in each run.

Any ideas?

[Khash Sajadi]

This was only happening on my Mac box, not the Linux production servers. It seems to be fixed by uninstalling bcrypt-ruby gem (it was 3.0.1) and installing it again (same version). I am still not sure why but the issue is fixed.