How to access the curent factories attributes

[Jason Waldrip]

Lets say I have the following factory:

FactoryGirl.define do

    

    factory :user do

        first_name: { Faker::Name.first_name }

        last_name: { Faker::Name.last_name }

        user_name: { "#{first_name.first}_#{last_name}" }

    end

end

Quite obviously this doesn't work, but how can I make it work to access the first_name and last_name attributes already generated above?

      

[Josh Clayton]

This should work just fine - the only issue I see is that you're
calling #first on first_name, where instead you'll probably want to do
first_name[0] or first_name.split(//).first.

[Martin Streicher]

You have it right. Your syntax is wrong, but the approach is proper. Here is the example from the docs.

factory :user do
  first_name "Joe"
  last_name  "Blow"
  email { "#{first_name}.#{last_name}@example.com".downcase }
end

See https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/blob/master/GETTING_STARTED.md

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