How to use onCreate

[humbienri]

Hello again,

Can you explain a bit more about how to use onCreate hook. It seems the docs assume familiarity or previous hands on experience with Factory Bot? Which I don't have.

Fishery doesn't, out-of-the-box, actually create a record in the database right? That would be something extra that would have to be hand coded? The documentation I've read on Ruby's Factory Bot just says that the model/record gets created in the database if one uses create vs. build.

So, for example, for Fishery I would have to somehow stitch up usage of axios, for example, to make an API call to create some record and then wire up that API call to Fishery's Create/onCreate methods?

Or am I way off here? Again, thank you very much for any assistance you can grant.

[stevehanson]

Hi, you are correct that, unlike FactoryBot which saves to a database on create, Fishery doesn't do anything on create by default. You have to define an onCreate method with your factory as described in the readme. The onCreate method can do whatever you'd like it to as long as it returns a promise with the object -- eg. manually use axios or other library to make a network call, etc. You would also be responsible for cleaning up your database or whatever external service you're calling if applicable.

Let me know if you still have any questions.

[humbienri]

That sucks! Awesome that you replied though. Thank you Steve!

This is hurting my brain. :)