version 0.2.3. handles more column types, more info in readme

README.md

@@ -71,6 +71,18 @@ If you are using STI, you'll need to manually fix the value that goes into the `
 
 Tested with postgreSQL 9.x only.
 
+If you use stepford to create factories for existing tests and the tests fail with:
+
+     ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
+       PG::Error: ERROR:  null value in column "something_id" violates not-null constraint
+
+or maybe:
+
+     ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid:
+       Validation failed: Item The item is required., Pricer The pricer is required., Purchased by A purchaser is required.
+
+you might either need to modify those factories to set associations that are required or specify `--associations` in stepford to attempt generate them.
+
 If you specify `--associations`, you might get circular associations and could easily end up with:
 
     SystemStackError:

lib/stepford/common.rb

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module Stepford
   class Common
     def self.value_for(column)
       case column.type
-      when :string
+      when :string, :text
         if column.default.nil?
           result = "Test #{column.name.titleize}"
           column.limit && column.limit < result.size ? (column.limit >= 0 ? "'#{'a' * column.limit}'" : 'nil') : "'#{result}'"
@@ -11,22 +11,21 @@ def self.value_for(column)
         end
       when :integer
         column.default.nil? ? (column.limit ? column.limit.to_s : '123') : column.default.to_s
-      when :decimal
+      when :decimal, :float
         column.default.nil? ? (column.limit ? column.limit.to_s : '1.23') : column.default.to_s
-      when :datetime
-        '{ 2.weeks.ago }'
-      when :timestamp
+      when :date, :datetime, :timestamp
         '{ 2.weeks.ago }'
       when :binary
         column.default.nil? ? (column.limit ? column.limit.to_s : '0b010101') : column.default.to_s
       when :boolean
         column.default.nil? ? 'true' : column.default.to_s
       when :xml
-        '<test>Test #{column_name.titleize}</test>'
+        column.default.nil? ? '<test>Test #{column_name.titleize}</test>' : column.default.to_s
       when :ts_vector
-        'nil'
+        column.default.nil? ? 'nil' : column.default.to_s
       else
-        'nil'
+        puts "Stepford does not know how to handle type #{column.type.to_sym}"
+        column.default.nil? ? 'nil' : column.default.to_s
       end
     end
   end

lib/stepford/version.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Stepford
-  VERSION = '0.2.2'
+  VERSION = '0.2.3'
 end