when does factory girl create objects in db?
- by Pavel K.
i am trying to simulate a session using factory girl/shoulda (it worked with fixtures but i am having problems with using factories). i have following factories (user login and email both have 'unique' validations):
Factory.define :user do |u|
u.login 'quentin'
u.email 'quentin@example.com'
end
Factory.define :session_user, :class => Session do |u|
u.association :user, :factory => :user
u.session_id 'session_user'
end
and here's the test
class MessagesControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
context "normal user" do
setup do
@request.session[:user_id]=Factory(:user).id
@request.session[:session_id]=Factory(:session_user).session_id
end
should "be able to access new message creation" do
get :new
assert_response :success
end
end
end
but when i run "rake test:functionals", i get this test result
1) Error:
test: normal user should be able to access new message creation. (MessagesControllerTest):
ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Account name already exists!, Email already exists!
which means that record already exists in db when i am referring to it in test setup. is there something i don't understand here? does factory girl create all factories in db on startup?
rails 2.3.5/shoulda/factory girl
