Factories Already Defined

[Rodrigo Flores]

Hi

I'm trying to use Steak with Factory Girl and I'm having this problem
while running rake spec (which I use to run all the tests):
Factory already defined: todo_item.

On the stacktrace, I see that it comes from my acceptance tests. Using
autotest, all my tests pass.

I don't know why this is happening since I'm not seeing where I load
the factories twice. My spec_helper and my acceptance helper are here:
http://gist.github.com/552564

Any hints ?

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[Luismi Cavallé]

Too little info to help you. Where are you requiring or including FactoryGirl? Can we stack the stacktrace you mentioned?

Also, make sure you're using latest version of Steak from git, and that you don't have any rake file like in `/lib/tasks/steak.rake` since that file is no longer necessary.

-- Luismi

[Rodrigo Flores]

I found where the problem is. The spec rake tasks were running all the
_spec files inside directories on spec/ directory, when the behaviour
I want is to not run files in acceptance directory inside spec.

[Rodrigo Flores]

A not so beatiful workaround that solves this problem is to put on
spec_helper.rb:

if Factory.factories.empty?
Dir["#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/support/**/*.rb"].each {|f| require f}
end

[Pessoal]

You're probably doing something wrong because I use Factory Girl with both Rails 2 and 3.

If your project is Rails 3.0 you should use the factory_girl_rails gem. If not you just need to require 'factory_girl' in spec_helper.rb and place your factories inside factories folder (that is autoloaded by FactoryGirl).

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Daniel Lopes