Problem using FactoryGirl with Hobo

[mkar...@gmail.com]

I'm trying to make a Hobo app with a REST api and test it with RSpec with FactoryGirl fixtures.

my user fields look like:

  fields do

    name          :string, :required, :unique

    email_address :email_address, :login => true

    administrator :boolean, :default => false

    api_key       :string, :default=>""

    timestamps

  end

And I have a user factory which looks like:

FactoryGirl.define do

  factory :user do 

    name "Joe Blow"

    email_address "j...@blow.com"

    administrator false

    api_key "nil value"

  end

end

Right at the start of my first spec file I do

  let(:user) {  FactoryGirl.create(:user) }

And the failure I get is:

  Failure/Error: let(:user) {  FactoryGirl.create(:user) }

     NoMethodError:

       undefined method `api_key=' for #<User:0x00000103ccf098>

In development mode, the api_key can be populated (by an observer)

and generally works as expected.

Can anyone please give me a hint why this is an unknown attribute when

trying to run rspec?

Thanks in advance.

Mike K

[Matt Jones]

On Jul 23, 2012, at 7:05 AM, mkar...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> And the failure I get is:
>
> Failure/Error: let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
> NoMethodError:
> undefined method `api_key=' for #<User:0x00000103ccf098>
>
> In development mode, the api_key can be populated (by an observer)
> and generally works as expected.
>
> Can anyone please give me a hint why this is an unknown attribute when
> trying to run rspec?

This is going to sound like a silly question, but are you running specs with the rspec command line tool? If you are, you may want to do:

rake db:test:prepare

as it looks like your test DB is missing the api_key column...

--Matt Jones

[mkar...@gmail.com]

Not silly at all. In fact, quite the point.

Ah, well, <blush>... RTFM

Thank you.

Mike