What if FactoryGirl depends on seeds?

[Bradford Smith]

I have State and Country that my app needs to run.   I seed it in my test, development, and production environments.  I use FactoryGirl to create a store:

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :store do
    name "Best Store Ever"
    city "Somewhere"
    state_id State.find_by_abbreviation("CA").id
    country_id Country.find_by_iso("US").id
  end
end

But, FactoryGirl seems to get run before my seed and I get an error:  Called id for nil, which would mistakenly be 4 -- if you really wanted the id of nil, use object_id (RuntimeError)

State.abbreviation and Country.iso are unique.

What are my best options for doing this?  Should FactoryGirl not rely on seed data?  How else should I do this?  I have some ideas, but would like to know what the best practice is here.

[Rennan Maciel]

I've never used seeds with factory girl, but I believe having it as:

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :store do
    name "Best Store Ever"
    city "Somewhere"
    state_id { State.find_by_abbreviation("CA").id }
    country_id { Country.find_by_iso("US").id }
  end
end

should do the trick, as whatever is between {} (passed as a block) will only be executed when called

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[Bradford Smith]

Thanks, Rennan.  I realized that right after I posted this, but the post took some time to go through. 

Thanks again,
Bradford