Pickle(?) and factory_girl with table values the same as factory names

[Doug]

I'm using cucumber (0.10.3), cucumber-rails (0.5.1), factory_girl
(1.3.3), factory_girl_rails (1.0.1), and pickle (0.4.7).

If I have an application with the classes FruitBasket and Apple and
corresponding factories, the following does not behave as I expect:

Background:
Given the following fruit_baskets exists:
| fruit_name | fruit_count |
| banana | 3 |
| apple | 4 |
| cherry | 20 |

If I don't have the row with "apple" in it, it works fine, fruit_name
is set to "banana" and "cherry". It appears that pickle is assuming
that "apple" is the factory and not the string "apple", which is what
I want.

Is it pickle that's doing this? Is there a way to force pickle to use
the string "apple" and not invoke the factory?

Thanks.
Doug

[Ian White]

Hi Doug,

I believe that you culd enclose the strirng in quotes to get the desired effect.

| fruit_name | fruit_count |
| "banana" | | 3 |

Cheers,
Ian

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[Doug]

Enclosing the string in quotes stored the quotes in the database:

>>>>>>>
Feature: Users should be able to create a fruit basket

Background: # features/
fruit_basket.feature:3
Given the following fruit_baskets exists: # features/
step_definitions/pickle_steps.rb:14

| fruit_name | fruit_count |
| "banana" | 3 |
| "apple" | 4 |
| "cherry" | 20 |

Scenario: create a fruit basket # features/
fruit_basket.feature:10
Given I retrieve the first fruit_basket # features/
step_definitions/application_steps.rb:1
Then that fruit_basket should have fruit name "banana" # features/
step_definitions/application_steps.rb:5
expected: "banana"
got: "\"banana\"" (using ==)
(RSpec::Expectations::ExpectationNotMetError)
./features/step_definitions/application_steps.rb:6:in `/^that
fruit_basket should have fruit name "([^"]*)"$/'
features/fruit_basket.feature:12:in `Then that fruit_basket
should have fruit name "banana"'

Failing Scenarios:
cucumber features/fruit_basket.feature:10 # Scenario: create a fruit
basket

1 scenario (1 failed)
3 steps (1 failed, 2 passed)
0m1.433s

[Everton Moreth]

Can you paste the error when trying to deal with the apple example?

Everton