CapsuleCat/ModelFactoriesMeteorPackage

Model factories for generating data for your collections!

Model Factories for Meteor

meteor add capsulecat:model-factories

Documentation

Model factories allows you to quickly generate a lot of data for your collections. You simply define your data generators, and then create models from those generators.

Uses faker.

Define Your Model Factories

You define a model by associating a generator callback with the collection (faker is passed in as a callback parameter):

$factory.define(Todos, function (faker) {
  return {
    text: faker.lorem.words(1, 5),
    createdAt: faker.date.past(),
    checked: faker.random.boolean()
  }
});

You can define multiple model factories for the same collection by using defineAs:

$factory.defineAs(Todos, 'todos that are not checked', function (faker) {
  return {
    text: faker.lorem.words(1, 5),
    createdAt: faker.date.past(),
    checked: false
  }
});

If you have attached a Simple Schema to your collection, you can use the helper utility raw to generate a best-guess of your model:

$factory.define(Todos, function (faker) {
  return $factory.raw(Todos);
});

Create Models

You can create models by specifying the collection to generate models for:

$factory(Todos).create(10).each(function(todo) {
  console.log(todo);
});

If you have named a generator, you pass the name as the second parameter:

$factory(Todos, 'todos that are not checked').create(10).each(function(todo) {
  console.log(todo);
});

You can transform the data into an array if you want:

var todos = $factory(Todos).create(10).toArray();

Or just have all of the data inserted into the collection for you:

$factory(Todos).create(10).insertAll();

Running Tests

Tests use Jasmine. You can run tests completely from the command line using:

VELOCITY_TEST_PACKAGES=1 meteor test-packages --driver-package velocity:html-reporter --velocity ./