bypassing validations

[Karl Baum]

Trying to bypass validations in one of my cucumber tests and I am
having some trouble. I am following this example:

http://codetunes.com/2009/11/05/fixtures-without-validation-with-factory-girl/

Seems to work when I invoke Factory(:invalid_model) but pickle is
using Factory.create(:invalid_object) which seems to throw the
validation error. Always thought that Factory and Factory.create were
synonyms. Is this expected?

thx.

-karl