factory_girl¶ ↑

factory_girl is a fixtures replacement with a straightforward definition syntax, support for multiple build strategies (saved instances, unsaved instances, attribute hashes, and stubbed objects), and support for multiple factories for the same class (user, admin_user, and so on), including factory inheritance.

Rails¶ ↑

factory_girl_rails provides Rails integration for factory_girl. All Rails-specific features are only compatible with Rails 3.

Currenty, automatic factory definition loading is the only Rails-specific feature.

Download¶ ↑

Github: github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl_rails/tree/master

Gem:

gem install factory_girl_rails

Configuration¶ ↑

Add factory_girl Rails to your Gemfile:

gem 'factory_girl_rails'

More Information¶ ↑

factory_girl: github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/tree/master

Author¶ ↑

factory_girl_rails was written by Joe Ferris.