Factory bot creates incorrect data - ruby-on-rails

Why is this test passing? I don't understand what the problem is: Factory bot or Rails?
Model:
class Vote < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :user
belongs_to :votable, polymorphic: true
validate :self_like
private
def self_like
errors.add(:user, 'self-like') if votable.author_id == user_id
end
end
Factory:
FactoryBot.define do
factory :vote do
value { 1 }
user
association :votable, factory: :question
end
end
If you output the tested object (pp vote), then all the attributes will be nil. In this case, it is possible to get the associated object (pp vote.votable)
describe 'validate :self_like' do
let!(:vote) { build :vote }
it "self-like" do
vote.valid?
expect(vote.errors[:user]).to include('self-like')
end
end

The way the factories are defined you don't specify that votable author and user match, so votable.author_id == user_id is going to be false.
The best solution I could think of is to update the votable author with an after_build hook and force it to match the user.
after(:build) do |vote|
vote.votable.update!(author: vote.user)
end

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RSpec: Factory definition for associated object

I have the following three models: Product, Warehouse and Inventory
# app/models/product.rb
class Product < ApplicationRecord
has_many :inventories
has_many :warehouses, through: :inventories
end
# app/models/warehouse.rb
class Warehouse < ApplicationRecord
has_many :inventories
has_many :products, through: :inventories
end
# app/models/inventory.rb
class Inventory < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :product
belongs_to :warehouse
end
I have this factory for Inventory:
FactoryBot.define do
factory :inventory do
product { nil }
warehouse { nil }
item_count { 1 }
low_item_threshold { 1 }
end
end
How can I use this factory for Inventory or what changes are needed in my other factories so that I can have a spec something like this?
RSpec.describe Inventory, type: :model do
it "has a valid factory" do
expect(FactoryBot.build(:inventory)).to be_valid
end
end
What you need is to change the :inventory factory definition, like this
FactoryBot.define do
factory :inventory do
product
warehouse
item_count { 1 }
low_item_threshold { 1 }
end
end
This will "tell" factory bot to instantiate the associated objects (https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/blob/master/GETTING_STARTED.md#associations)
But for this to work, you need to define warehouse and product factories.
You can use either the create or build methods passing the name if the factory as a symbol:
it "has a valid factory" do
expect(create(:inventory)).to be_valid
end
# OR
it "has a valid factory" do
expect(build(:inventory)).to be_valid
end
create will save the model while build will simply instantiate it. If you are having trouble getting your factories loaded, ensure they are in the right place.
you might change definition of the class Inventory to:
# app/models/inventory.rb
class Inventory < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :product, optional: true
belongs_to :warehouse, optional: true
end
and you will get successful validation
inventory = FactoryBot.build(:inventory)
inventory.valid? #true
###############################################
Explanation:
to build valid Inventory object with current definition(like in question description) of the model its necessary to initialize associated objects also. So every time validation checks if warehouse and product attributes present.
But its possible to avoid such behaviour with associations attribute optional: true.
# app/models/inventory.rb
class Inventory < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :product
belongs_to :warehouse
end
FactoryBot.define do
factory :inventory do
product { nil }
warehouse { nil }
item_count { 1 }
low_item_threshold { 1 }
end
end
inventory = FactoryBot.build(:inventory)
inventory.valid? #false
inventory.errors.full_messages # ["Product must exist", "Warehouse must exist"]
:required
When set to true, the association will also have its
presence validated. This will validate the association itself, not the
id. You can use :inverse_of to avoid an extra query during validation.
NOTE: required is set to true by default and is deprecated. If you
don’t want to have association presence validated, use optional: true.
https://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassMethods/belongs_to

Factory girl : validates associated leads to undefined method valid? for nil:Nilclass

I have model Student, which has_one :account.
All input-related data is stored inside of account. Student model just plays it's role when it comes to relations (some other models belong to student).
Problem: I can't test it with factory girl.
factory :student do
end
As I can't define anything besides it.
What I get on every attempt of #student = FactoryGirl.create(:student):
undefined method `valid?' for nil:NilClass
Any fixes?
Additional code
class Account < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :account_holder, :polymorphic => true
...
end
factory :account do
sequence :name do |n|
"Name#{n}"
end
sequence :surname do |n|
"Surname#{n}"
end
sequence :phone do |n|
"8911222332#{n}"
end
sequence :email do |n|
"somemail#{n}#mail.ru"
end
student
end
Source of issue
Student has:
validates_associated_extended :account
which is basically usual validate but with error extraction for parent model.
So when FactoryGirl attempts to create student, it validates account, which is nil.
I tried this:
before(:create) {|student| build(:account, :account_holder =>student )}
in student factory, while in account factory:
association :account_holder, :factory=>:student
But it still doesn't work.
factory :student do
after :build do |student|
student.account << create(:account, :account_holder => student) if student.account_holder.nil?
end
end
This allows you to have both a valid student and to specify an account if you want to force one.
I think latest versions of FactoryGirl even allow that to be written as lazy attribute syntax:
factory :student do
account { create(:account) }
end

Factory Girl and nested attributes validation error

I have a model Company which accepts nested attributes for Recruiters model. I need to have validation in my Company model that at least one recruiter was created during Company creation.
class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :recruiters, dependent: :destroy, inverse_of: :company
accepts_nested_attributes_for :recruiters, reject_if: ->(attributes) { attributes[:name].blank? || attributes[:email].blank? }, allow_destroy: true
validate { check_recruiters_number } # this validates recruiters number
private
def recruiters_count_valid?
recruiters.reject(&:marked_for_destruction?).count >= RECRUITERS_COUNT_MIN
end
def check_recruiters_number
unless recruiters_count_valid?
errors.add(:base, :recruiters_too_short, count: RECRUITERS_COUNT_MIN)
end
end
end
Validation works as expected but after adding this validation I have a problem with FactoryGirl. My factory for company looks like this:
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :company do
association :industry
association :user
available_disclosures 15
city 'Berlin'
country 'Germany'
ignore do
recruiters_count 2
end
after(:build) do |company, evaluator|
FactoryGirl.create_list(:recruiter, evaluator.recruiters_count, company: company)
end
before(:create) do |company, evaluator|
FactoryGirl.create_list(:recruiter, evaluator.recruiters_count, company: company)
end
end
end
In tests, when I do
company = create(:company)
I get validation error:
ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid:
Validation failed: Company has to have at least one recruiter
When I first build company and then save it, the test passes:
company = build(:company)
company = save
Of course, I don't want to change all my tests this way to make them work. How can I set up my factory to create associated model during creation Company model?
Your validate { check_recruiters_number } is unreasonable. Remove it.
Why? You need to have a valid company id to save recruiters, but your validator prevent company to be valid because it has no recruiters. This is in contradiction.
This is an old question but I have similar problem and I solved it with the following code (rewritten to match your case):
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :company do
association :industry
association :user
available_disclosures 15
city 'Berlin'
country 'Germany'
ignore do
recruiters_count 2
end
after(:build) do |company, evaluator|
company.recruiters = FactoryGirl.build_list(:recruiter, evaluator.recruiters_count, company: company)
end
end
end

FactoryGirl and polymorphic associations

The design
I have a User model that belongs to a profile through a polymorphic association. The reason I chose this design can be found here. To summarize, there are many users of the application that have really different profiles.
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :profile, :dependent => :destroy, :polymorphic => true
end
class Artist < ActiveRecord::Base
has_one :user, :as => :profile
end
class Musician < ActiveRecord::Base
has_one :user, :as => :profile
end
After choosing this design, I'm having a hard time coming up with good tests. Using FactoryGirl and RSpec, I'm not sure how to declare the association the most efficient way.
First attempt
factories.rb
Factory.define :user do |f|
# ... attributes on the user
# this creates a dependency on the artist factory
f.association :profile, :factory => :artist
end
Factory.define :artist do |a|
# ... attributes for the artist profile
end
user_spec.rb
it "should destroy a users profile when the user is destroyed" do
# using the class Artist seems wrong to me, what if I change my factories?
user = Factory(:user)
profile = user.profile
lambda {
user.destroy
}.should change(Artist, :count).by(-1)
end
Comments / other thoughts
As mentioned in the comments in the user spec, using Artist seems brittle. What if my factories change in the future?
Maybe I should use factory_girl callbacks and define an "artist user" and "musician user"? All input is appreciated.
Although there is an accepted answer, here is some code using the new syntax which worked for me and might be useful to someone else.
spec/factories.rb
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :musical_user, class: "User" do
association :profile, factory: :musician
#attributes for user
end
factory :artist_user, class: "User" do
association :profile, factory: :artist
#attributes for user
end
factory :artist do
#attributes for artist
end
factory :musician do
#attributes for musician
end
end
spec/models/artist_spec.rb
before(:each) do
#artist = FactoryGirl.create(:artist_user)
end
Which will create the artist instance as well as the user instance. So you can call:
#artist.profile
to get the Artist instance.
Use traits like this;
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :user do
# attributes_for user
trait :artist do
association :profile, factory: :artist
end
trait :musician do
association :profile, factory: :musician
end
end
end
now you can get user instance by FactoryGirl.create(:user, :artist)
Factory_Girl callbacks would make life much easier. How about something like this?
Factory.define :user do |user|
#attributes for user
end
Factory.define :artist do |artist|
#attributes for artist
artist.after_create {|a| Factory(:user, :profile => a)}
end
Factory.define :musician do |musician|
#attributes for musician
musician.after_create {|m| Factory(:user, :profile => m)}
end
You can also solve this using nested factories (inheritance), this way you create a basic factory for each class then
nest factories that inherit from this basic parent.
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :user do
# attributes_for user
factory :artist_profile do
association :profile, factory: :artist
end
factory :musician_profile do
association :profile, factory: :musician
end
end
end
You now have access to the nested factories as follows:
artist_profile = create(:artist_profile)
musician_profile = create(:musician_profile)
Hope this helps someone.
It seems that polymorphic associations in factories behave the same as regular Rails associations.
So there is another less verbose way if you don't care about attributes of model on "belongs_to" association side (User in this example):
# Factories
FactoryGirl.define do
sequence(:email) { Faker::Internet.email }
factory :user do
# you can predefine some user attributes with sequence
email { generate :email }
end
factory :artist do
# define association according to documentation
user
end
end
# Using in specs
describe Artist do
it 'created from factory' do
# its more naturally to starts from "main" Artist model
artist = FactoryGirl.create :artist
artist.user.should be_an(User)
end
end
FactoryGirl associations: https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/blob/master/GETTING_STARTED.md#associations
I currently use this implementation for dealing with polymorphic associations in FactoryGirl:
In /spec/factories/users.rb:
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :user do
# attributes for user
end
# define your Artist factory elsewhere
factory :artist_user, parent: :user do
profile { create(:artist) }
profile_type 'Artist'
# optionally add attributes specific to Artists
end
# define your Musician factory elsewhere
factory :musician_user, parent: :user do
profile { create(:musician) }
profile_type 'Musician'
# optionally add attributes specific to Musicians
end
end
Then, create the records as usual: FactoryGirl.create(:artist_user)

How to create has_and_belongs_to_many associations in Factory girl

Given the following
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
has_and_belongs_to_many :companies
end
class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
has_and_belongs_to_many :users
end
how do you define factories for companies and users including the bidirectional association? Here's my attempt
Factory.define :company do |f|
f.users{ |users| [users.association :company]}
end
Factory.define :user do |f|
f.companies{ |companies| [companies.association :user]}
end
now I try
Factory :user
Perhaps unsurprisingly this results in an infinite loop as the factories recursively use each other to define themselves.
More surprisingly I haven't found a mention of how to do this anywhere, is there a pattern for defining the necessary factories or I am doing something fundamentally wrong?
Here is the solution that works for me.
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :company do
#company attributes
end
factory :user do
companies {[FactoryGirl.create(:company)]}
#user attributes
end
end
if you will need specific company you can use factory this way
company = FactoryGirl.create(:company, #{company attributes})
user = FactoryGirl.create(:user, :companies => [company])
Hope this will be helpful for somebody.
Factorygirl has since been updated and now includes callbacks to solve this problem. Take a look at http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/254496652/aint-no-calla-back-girl for more info.
In my opinion, Just create two different factories like:
Factory.define :user, :class => User do |u|
# Just normal attributes initialization
end
Factory.define :company, :class => Company do |u|
# Just normal attributes initialization
end
When you write the test-cases for user then just write like this
Factory(:user, :companies => [Factory(:company)])
Hope it will work.
I couldn´t find an example for the above mentioned case on the provided website. (Only 1:N and polymorphic assocations, but no habtm). I had a similar case and my code looks like this:
Factory.define :user do |user|
user.name "Foo Bar"
user.after_create { |u| Factory(:company, :users => [u]) }
end
Factory.define :company do |c|
c.name "Acme"
end
What worked for me was setting the association when using the factory.
Using your example:
user = Factory(:user)
company = Factory(:company)
company.users << user
company.save!
Found this way nice and verbose:
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :foo do
name "Foo"
end
factory :bar do
name "Bar"
foos { |a| [a.association(:foo)] }
end
end
factory :company_with_users, parent: :company do
ignore do
users_count 20
end
after_create do |company, evaluator|
FactoryGirl.create_list(:user, evaluator.users_count, users: [user])
end
end
Warning: Change users: [user] to :users => [user] for ruby 1.8.x
For HABTM I used traits and callbacks.
Say you have the following models:
class Catalog < ApplicationRecord
has_and_belongs_to_many :courses
…
end
class Course < ApplicationRecord
…
end
You can define the Factory above:
FactoryBot.define do
factory :catalog do
description "Catalog description"
…
trait :with_courses do
after :create do |catalog|
courses = FactoryBot.create_list :course, 2
catalog.courses << courses
catalog.save
end
end
end
end
First of all I strongly encourage you to use has_many :through instead of habtm (more about this here), so you'll end up with something like:
Employment belongs_to :users
Employment belongs_to :companies
User has_many :employments
User has_many :companies, :through => :employments
Company has_many :employments
Company has_many :users, :through => :employments
After this you'll have has_many association on both sides and can assign to them in factory_girl in the way you did it.
Update for Rails 5:
Instead of using has_and_belongs_to_many association, you should consider: has_many :through association.
The user factory for this association looks like this:
FactoryBot.define do
factory :user do
# user attributes
factory :user_with_companies do
transient do
companies_count 10 # default number
end
after(:create) do |user, evaluator|
create_list(:companies, evaluator.companies_count, user: user)
end
end
end
end
You can create the company factory in a similar way.
Once both factories are set, you can create user_with_companies factory with companies_count option. Here you can specify how many companies the user belongs to: create(:user_with_companies, companies_count: 15)
You can find detailed explanation about factory girl associations here.
You can define new factory and use after(:create) callback to create a list of associations. Let's see how to do it in this example:
FactoryBot.define do
# user factory without associated companies
factory :user do
# user attributes
factory :user_with_companies do
transient do
companies_count 10
end
after(:create) do |user, evaluator|
create_list(:companies, evaluator.companies_count, user: user)
end
end
end
end
Attribute companies_count is a transient and available in attributes of the factory and in the callback via the evaluator. Now, you can create a user with companies with the option to specify how many companies you want:
create(:user_with_companies).companies.length # 10
create(:user_with_companies, companies_count: 15).companies.length # 15

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