Using Factory Girl with Rspec - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have set up Rspec with a rails4 app however the tests are returning:
Failure/Error: user = Factory(:user)
NoMethodError:
undefined method `Factory' for #<RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup::Nested_4::Nested_1:0x007fa08c0d8a98>
Seems like I'm including FactoryGirl incorrectly. I've tried a couple of variations but I can't get it to work.
My Spec Helper:
# This file is copied to spec/ when you run 'rails generate rspec:install'
ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test'
require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__)
require 'rspec/rails'
require 'rspec/autorun'
require 'factory_girl_rails'
# Requires supporting ruby files with custom matchers and macros, etc,
# in spec/support/ and its subdirectories.
Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each { |f| require f }
# Checks for pending migrations before tests are run.
# If you are not using ActiveRecord, you can remove this line.
ActiveRecord::Migration.check_pending! if defined?(ActiveRecord::Migration)
RSpec.configure do |config|
# ## Mock Framework
#
# If you prefer to use mocha, flexmock or RR, uncomment the appropriate line:
#
# config.mock_with :mocha
# config.mock_with :flexmock
# config.mock_with :rr
# Remove this line if you're not using ActiveRecord or ActiveRecord fixtures
config.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"
# If you're not using ActiveRecord, or you'd prefer not to run each of your
# examples within a transaction, remove the following line or assign false
# instead of true.
config.use_transactional_fixtures = true
# If true, the base class of anonymous controllers will be inferred
# automatically. This will be the default behavior in future versions of
# rspec-rails.
config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false
# Run specs in random order to surface order dependencies. If you find an
# order dependency and want to debug it, you can fix the order by providing
# the seed, which is printed after each run.
# --seed 1234
config.order = "random"
config.include Capybara::DSL, :type => :request
config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods
end
gem file:
group :development, :test do
gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 2.0'
gem 'factory_girl_rails', :require => false # as per sugestion on SO. Without the require false also fails
gem "capybara"
end
my spec:
require 'spec_helper'
describe "Create Event" do
describe "Log in and create an event" do
it "Allows creation of individual events" do
user = Factory(:user)
visit "/"
end
end
end
and in /spec/factories/users.rb
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :user do |f|
f.email "provider#example.com"
f.password "password"
end
end
How can i get going with factory girl?

Answer 1

Given that you have included:
config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods
In your RSpec configure block, I'm guessing that the syntax you're looking for is:
user = create(:user)
or:
user = build(:user)

Answer 2

To create a user using FactoryGirl:
user = FactoryGirl.create(:user)
This will use everything you defined in the factory to create the user. You can also override any value, or specify additional values at the same time. For example:
user = FactoryGirl.create(:user, username: 'username', email: 'different-email#example.com)
Alternatively you can use FactoryGirl.build(:user, ...) where you want to make use of the factory to build an instance but not actually save it to the database.