FactoryGirl creating objects in development environment - ruby-on-rails

Question

When I boot up my rails console in development I see FactoryGirl creating objects. Clearly I'm doing it wrong, but what's the right way to do this? This code makes my tests work...
# tests/factories/board.rb
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :word do
sequence(:text) { |n| "FAKETEXT#{n}" }
end
factory :board do
trait :has_words do
words [
FactoryGirl.create(:word, id: "514b81cae14cfa78f335e250"),
FactoryGirl.create(:word, id: "514b81cae14cfa7917e443f0"),
FactoryGirl.create(:word, id: "514b81cae14cfa79182407a2"),
FactoryGirl.create(:word, id: "514b81cae14cfa78f581c534")
]
end
end
end
Note there's no mention of factory anything in any file in my config directory, so whatever loading is happening automatically by the gem. The relevant part of my Gemfile reads:
# Stuff not to use in production
group :development, :test do
# Command-line debugger for development
gem "debugger"
# for unit testing - replace fixtures
gem "factory_girl_rails"
end
So I could just take factory girl out of the development environment. But I think the fact that these records are being created before the factory is being used is a sign that I've written my factory incorrectly. But if you tell me the factory is written correctly, I'll just do that.

Answer 1

Had the same problem. There are 2 ways to fix this,
1. Use FactoryGirl syntax to reference Factory within a Factory.
Replace FacotryGirl.create(:my_factory) with factory: :my_factory
More info on this, https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/blob/master/GETTING_STARTED.md#associations
2. factory_girl :require => false in Gemfile
This causes Factories to generate objects on boot,
group :development, :test do
gem 'factory_girl_rails'
end
Why? During Rails boot, Bundler requires all the gems in the development group, and it seems that FactoryGirl requires all their factory files. Requiring the factories evaluates the Ruby code, and thus, FactoryGirl.create(:my_factory) gets called.
This can be fixed by,
# Gemfile
group :development, :test do
gem 'factory_girl_rails', :require => false
end
Just make sure to manually require factory_girl in your test environment, EG
# spec_helper
require 'factory_girl'

Answer 2

You just need to move factory girl out of the development environment.
I had the same issue, so I just did
group :test do
gem 'faker'
gem 'factory_girl_rails'
end
And works like a charm.
I'm not using those gems at all in development so its correct to just define them in test.

Answer 3

for each factories or model, you have to put in different file
spec/factories/word_factory.rb
spec/factories/board_factory.rb
So the content of each factory, you can do something similar to this:
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :board do
word
special_id
end
end
when in your test folder such as models/board_spec.rb
you can create your object
let(:word) { FactoryGirl.create(:word)
let(:board) { FactoryGirl.create(:board, word: word) }
nt sure is this what you need,correct me if I'm wrong

Answer 4

Assuming you want the words created when the factory is invoked and not at Rails startup, then you need to place the array of words inside a block, to wit:
trait :has_words do
words do [
FactoryGirl.create(:word, id: "514b81cae14cfa78f335e250"),
FactoryGirl.create(:word, id: "514b81cae14cfa7917e443f0"),
FactoryGirl.create(:word, id: "514b81cae14cfa79182407a2"),
FactoryGirl.create(:word, id: "514b81cae14cfa78f581c534")
]
end
end