Factory Girl - Transferring Association Data

Question

I am trying to change the attributes that are set when persisting associations

Factories:

Factory.define :course do |course|
 course.title "Course 1"
end

Factory.define :user do |user|
 user.name "Alex"
end

Execution

Factory(:course, :user => Factory(:user, name: 'Tim'))

The stored value will be "Alex", not "Tim". Any ideas?

+3

Alex 02 Apr 12 at 18:13

1 answer

MrDanA · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-02T20:20:51+0000

First you need to add an association to your factory:

Factory.define :course do |course|
    course.title "Course 1"
    course.association :user
end

Then you must do it as a two step process:

user = Factory.create :user, :name => "Tim"
course = Factory.create :course, :user => user # or :user_id => user.id

And if your model associations, etc. set up fine, it won't work.