Issues with factory_girl

[paulca]

I'm seeing two issues with factory_girl:

1. I'm getting AssociationTypeMismatch:

       Account(#70230659454740) expected, got Account(#70230618066520)

2. Fixtures aren't being reloaded between test runs.

Am I missing something?

—P

[rwjblue]

I have not had an issue with the first item myself so I would like more information.

The second is definitely an issue that I have seen, and I think that the following in your spec_helper.rb should force a reload on each run test run (assuming you require spec_helper.rb in your tests).

if defined?(Spring)
  Spring.after_fork do
    FactoryGirl.reload
  end
end

That does seem like a bit of overhead when most of the time the factories aren't changing. I'll play around with it later, but I think that perhaps something like the following will work in config/spring.rb:

Spring.application_watcher.add_globs("#{Rails.root}/spec/factories/*.rb")

This will likely change a little if #82 gets pulled in, but it would be essentially the same.

[rwjblue]

Hmmm, looks like that last one doesn't work properly because spring/commands is required (and also config/spring.rb) before Spring.application_watcher is setup in spring/application.

I'll try to update that in #82 since it is dealing with the watcher anyways.

[b4mboo]

I'm now running into this issue, too. It has also been referenced in #21.
I'm using factory_girl (4.2.0) with rails (3.2.12) and minitest (4.5.0).

[rwjblue]

@b4mboo Which issue are you referring to? The issue of factories not being reloaded or AssociationTypeMismatch?

[b4mboo]

AssociationTypeMismatch. Which is the one referenced in #21 and also the one still open in the current issue at hand. I'm trying to create a minimal app that reproduces that error.

[paulca]

I added this to my Rspec configuration and it seems to have settled things:

config.before(:all) do
    FactoryGirl.factories.clear
    FactoryGirl.sequences.clear
    FactoryGirl.find_definitions
end

[rwjblue]

I am using Spring 0.0.7 with a number of rails projects that use FactoryGirl along with RSpec without any issues.

Can you post a sample rails 3.2.12 app to help isolate the issue?

[rwjblue]

@paulca I believe that FactoryGirl.reload is what you really want to use if you are on a recent enough version. It resets FactoryGirl's complete configuration.

[paulca]

@rjackson ❤️ Thanks!

[b4mboo]

@paulca's solution still doesn't seem to work for me. :-/

[rwjblue]

Could you share a sample app that I can use to help debug/fix this? I am having a hard time replicating the issue locally.

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 1, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Bamboo notifications@github.com wrote:

@paulca's solution still doesn't seem to work for me. :-/

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[rwjblue]

Does this SO issue describe your situation (capybara request specs)?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5145165/associationtypemismatch-and-factorygirl

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 1, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Bamboo notifications@github.com wrote:

@paulca's solution still doesn't seem to work for me. :-/

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[jonleighton]

I suspect this may be due to the class reloading producing two living instances of e.g. the "Post" model. I don't have any further insight without investigating further myself though.

[rwjblue]

@jonleighton I agree. I'll try to come up with a sample app later this afternoon, and then we can come up with a game plan for a solution.

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 1, 2013, at 12:47 PM, Jon Leighton notifications@github.com wrote:

I suspect this may be due to the class reloading producing two living instances of e.g. the "Post" model. I don't have any further insight without investigating further myself though.

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.