Using Fabricate on the front end in a .js.erb file.

[Brett Pontarelli]

I'm running a proof of concept test to see if I can get Fabrication linked to my js.  The problem is `Fabricate` calls in the following test.js.erb file are returning the same values.  First, why would they always be the same?  and second, how can I change the (is is caching?) behavior to return a proper sample?  Note that the value doesn't change even if I edit the test.js.erb file, restart the rails server... I've tried lots of things.  Thanks.

In a test.js.erb file I have the following:

test = [

  <%= Fabricate.attributes_for(:item).to_json.gsub('\\','') + ',' %>

  <%= Fabricate.attributes_for(:item).to_json.gsub('\\','') + ',' %>

  <%= Fabricate.attributes_for(:item).to_json.gsub('\\','') %>

]

Which when served to `localhost:3000/assests/app/test.js` returns:

test = [

  {"name":"seven"}

  {"name":"seven"}

  {"name":"seven"}

]

The `item` Fabricator is:

Fabricator(:item) do

  name %w(one two three four five six seven eight nine ten).sample

end

[Paul Elliott]

You need to pass your list to it via a block so it is evaluated with every call to `Fabricate`. When you pass it that way, it is sampling your array once when the fabricator is loaded and storing that value.

```

Fabricator(:item) do

  name { %w(one two three four five six seven eight nine ten).sample }

end

```

-- Paul

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[Brett Pontarelli]

Yep!  That worked.  Not sure how I missed that ;/

Thanks.