Prevent panic by Testing Your Factories First.

Testing Your Factories First

Prevent panic by Testing Your Factories First.

September 6, 2012 Tagged: factories factory girl testing Comments (View) Testing Your Factories First Have you ever added a seemingly innocent validation to a model, like so: class User < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :first_name end And then had this happen?: $ rake spec If you’re using FactoryGirl , this can often happen because you haven’t updated your factory to respect the new validation. Of course, the fix is simple: # spec/factories.rb FactoryGirl.define do factory :user do first_name 'Jonah' end end But how do you save yourself the time (and potential heart attack) of watching all those dreaded F s go by? Watching Over Your Factories My old solution used to be adding a boilerplate test in each model’s unit spec, like so: # spec/models/user_spec.rb describe User do it 'has a valid Factory' do build(:user).should be_valid end end This is better than nothin...

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@stackful_io » 23 Sep '12, 2am
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@netwillnet » 12 Sep '12, 5am
factory girl のテストを書いて、先にfactory girlのテストを実行→グリーンなら他のテストも実行することで、カラム定義を変えたときにテストがこけまくるのを防ぐ話 / “Testing Your Factories …” [link]
@hilldude » 11 Sep '12, 10pm
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@AaronPark » 07 Sep '12, 3pm
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@AlbertoVena » 07 Sep '12, 7am
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@tex314 » 07 Sep '12, 3am
factory用のspecを作ろう [link]
@shindo_ryohei » 06 Sep '12, 10pm
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@newtriks » 06 Sep '12, 9pm
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@kylecrum » 06 Sep '12, 9pm
Yes, we've gottoen to the point of testing tests. But how do we test the test tests? [link]
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