I am setting up request specs following this tutorial.
If I run the tests with bundle exec rspec I get the following error:
An error occurred while loading ./spec/factories/entities_spec.rb.
Failure/Error:
FactoryBot.define do
factory :entity do
name { FFaker::Lorem.word }
end
end
NameError:
uninitialized constant FactoryBot
The tutorial only asks to add some configuration to the rails_helper.rb file. I can't figure where I need to add a require 'factory_bot'. If I add it to the top of the rails_helper.rb file, the error persists. And if I add it to the factories/entity_spec.rb file, I get this error:
An error occurred while loading ./spec/requests/entities_spec.rb.
Failure/Error:
factory :entity do
name { FFaker::Lorem.word }
end
FactoryBot::DuplicateDefinitionError:
Factory already registered: entity
Simply renaming my factories/*.rb files from e.g. factories/user_spec.rb to factories/user.rb solved the problem.
Related
I'm trying this gem called FactoryBotRails. For some reason, when I try it on one of my models unit tests, the following error is thrown.
Failure/Error: my_model = build(:my_model)
NoMethodError:
undefined method `build' for #\<\RSpec::ExampleGroups::MyModel::ValidationTests:0x000055c553959958>
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, as long as I have followed several tutorials on the web, and did the same steps.
Added, in:
gemfile
gem 'factory_bot_rails', '~> 5.1.1'
app/spec/support/factory_bot.rb
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.include FactoryBot::Syntax::Methods
end
spec/rails_helper.rb
Dir[Rails.root.join('spec/support/**/*.rb')].each { |f| require f }
spec/factories/my_models.rb
FactoryBot.define do
factory :my_model do
name { 'some name' }
code { 'some code' }
end
end
And used it like:
my_model = build(:my_model)
What is wrong with my configuration?
The issue might not be what you're calling, but where you're calling it. my_model = build(:my_model) is not syntax you want to use while writing specs, and the error message looks maybe you're calling it from outside of a spec? Because if you're calling it from within a spec, the error should be something along the lines of ArgumentError: Factory not registered: my_model. The spec itself should look like this:
# spec/models/my_model_spec.rb
require 'rails_helper'
describe MyModel do
let(:my_model) { build :my_model }
it { expect(my_model).to be_valid }
end
I would also specify the model name in your factory declaration (i.e., factory :my_model, class: 'MyModel' do). If you want to play with your factories, you can start up a test console:
# start rails console in 'test' environment
rails console test
my_model = FactoryBot.build :my_model
Note that you will need to use FactoryBot.build instead of build in your test console.
If this doesn't resolve your issue, please update your post with the contents of the spec you're trying to run, how you're trying to run it, and expand your definition of your spec/rails_helper.rb file. Since you're new to RSpec, I also suggest checking out http://www.betterspecs.org/ for best practices.
Probably you're missing to setup shortcuts for FactoryGirl by including its methods in your rails_helper:
RSpec.configure do |config|
# ...
config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods
end
The syntax for creation of factorybot is:
FactoryBot.create :my_model
Pass arguments hash if you need something different:
FactoryBot.create :my_model, name: "John Doe"
For multiple (e.g. 10 my_models):
FactoryBot.create_list :my_model, 10
I cannot run rpsec after merging my code from Github.
I keep getting FactoryGirl error :
uninitialized constant ControllerMacros::FactoryGirl
1) Question has a valid factory
Failure/Error: expect(FactoryGirl.build(:question)).to be_valid
NameError:
uninitialized constant FactoryGirl
# ./spec/models/question_spec.rb:14:in `block (2 levels) in '
Please help.
It appears that FactoryGirl may be missing some definitions. Try declaring the following in your spec_helper:
# spec/spec_helper.rb
require 'factory_girl'
FactoryGirl.find_definitions
If this is for a Rails project, you can avoid finding definitions manually by using factory_girl_rails, which will automatically load your definitions for you.
Trying to use FactoryGirl to seed my development db with some data. Following this tutorial so my seeds.rb file looks like this:
require 'factory_girl'
Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/factories/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}
100.times do
FactoryGirl.create :idea
end
When running rake db:seed it complains:
rake aborted!
Factory already registered: idea
Why is it a bad thing that the factory is registered? I'm trying to use it, not register it (whatever that means...). Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Most likely your factories are already being loaded. Try removing the line that does each of the requires and see if that corrects the issue.
I'm following this tutorial to get started with TDD on rails with factory girl, rspec and i ran into this issue i can't get my head around.
Here's my "factory".rb (events.rb)
require 'faker'
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :event do
name "HIGH"
genre "house, techno, idb"
venue_name "Westbourne Studios"
venue_address "4-6 Chamberlayne Road"
venue_postcode "NW103JD"
begin_time "10pm"
end_time "2am"
user_id 2
description "A Super massive party with loads of everything you would want around."
status true
venue_id nil
end
end
and here's the event_spec.rb:
require 'spec_helper'
require 'factory_girl_rails'
describe Event do
it "has a valid factory" do
Factory.create(:event).should be_valid
end
it "is invalid without a name"
it "is invalid without a genre"
it "is invalid without a venue_name"
it "is invalid without a venue_address"
it "is invalid without a venue_postcode"
...
end
I have setup the model, migrated etc.. and when i run "rspec spec/models/event_spec.rb" i get the following error:
Failures:
1) Event has a valid factory
Failure/Error: Factory.create(:event).should be_valid
NameError:
uninitialized constant Factory
# ./spec/models/event_spec.rb:7:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
Finished in 0.1682 seconds
13 examples, 1 failure, 12 pending
Failed examples:
rspec ./spec/models/event_spec.rb:6 # Event has a valid factory
Randomized with seed 64582
Try to use it in this way:
FactoryGirl.create(:event).should be_valid
I think, I can remember, that it was only "Factory" in old versions of the gem. If you take a look in the recent "Getting started" guide of Factory Girl, there are only calls with "FactoryGirl".
If you create file spec/support/factory_girl.rb with content:
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods
end
Then you can simply use:
create(:event)
build(:book)
Instead of:
FactogyGirl.create(:event)
FactogyGirl.build(:book)
I had the same error with factory bot, and to supplement Stefan's answer I came across this little cheat sheet.
https://devhints.io/factory_bot
Well, I'm doing some testing right with Rails+Rspec+Shoulda.
When I do a test like the following:
context #user do
describe 'Validation' do
describe :name
it { should allow_value('something').for :name }
end
end
end
When it fails, Rspec just output:
1) Validation name Valid
Failure/Error: it { should allow_value(value).for :name }
Did not expect errors when name is set to "something", got error:
# ./spec/models/user_spec.rb:4:in `block (3 levels) in <top (required)>'
It even says got error: but it doesn't output it! I actually know there is a validation error there, but I want Rspec to tell me that, how I would know what is failing to validate then?
What am I doing wrong? Is that the expected behaviour? I have to overwrite the helpers?
I dug into the Shoulda code and I found that it doesn't show the errors when checking for positive assert. But them are loaded into the #errors variable. So I just monkey patched the one method that defines the output:
module Shoulda
module ActiveRecord
module Matchers
def failure_message
"Did not expect #{expectation}, got error: \n#{#expected_message ? #matched_error : #errors.join("\n ")}"
end
end
end
end
The original said:
"Did not expect #{expectation}, got error: #{#matched_error}"
I saved it to /lib/shoulda/activerecord/matchers.rb and loaded it with config.autoload_paths += Dir["#{config.root}/lib/**/"]
Hope this helps someone with the same issue ^^
Yup welcome to spec testing so you need to recreate the error in console if you want the error, rspec is not a debugger just a test suite.
I run into this a lot