Using Rspec, factory_girl and permalink?

[Linus Pettersson]

Hi!

I'm using Rspec and factory_girl. In my products model I have a method that creates permalinks simply by overriding to_param, like this:

def create_permalink
  self.permalink = "#{self.name} #{self.brand.name}".parameterize
end

My product factory looks like this:

Factory.define :product do |p|
  p.sequence(:name) { |n| 'Product Name #{n}'}
  p.gender 'Man'
  p.sequence(:price) { |n| 123.00 + n }
  p.product_url 'http://www.example.com/prod-url'
  p.association :reseller
  p.association :subcategory
end

Then when I try to use the factory in Rspec, like this:

Factory.create(:product)

I get the following error:

Failure/Error: Factory.create(:product)
NoMethodError: undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass

Why is that?

Regards
Linus

[Dave Aronson]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 05:28, Linus Pettersson
<linus.pe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> def create_permalink
>   self.permalink = "#{self.name} #{self.brand.name}".parameterize
> end

...

> Failure/Error: Factory.create(:product)
> NoMethodError: undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass
>
> Why is that?

My guess would be that you're not setting self.brand. I don't see
anything in the Factory setting it.

-Dave

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[Linus Pettersson]

Of course... Thank you! Sometimes when you've looked for too long on the code you get blind :)

Regards

Linus