I've been struggling with setting up a has_many/through
relationship using Factory Girl.
I have the following models:
class Job < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :job_details, :dependent => :destroy
has_many :details, :through => :job_details
end
class Detail < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :job_details, :dependent => :destroy
has_many :jobs, :through => :job_details
end
class JobDetail < ActiveRecord::Base
attr_accessible :job_id, :detail_id
belongs_to :job
belongs_to :detail
end
My Factory:
factory :job do
association :tenant
title { Faker::Company.catch_phrase }
company { Faker::Company.name }
company_url { Faker::Internet.domain_name }
purchaser_email { Faker::Internet.email }
description { Faker::Lorem.paragraphs(3) }
how_to_apply { Faker::Lorem.sentence }
location "New York, NY"
end
factory :detail do
association :detail_type <--another Factory not show here
description "Full Time"
end
factory :job_detail do
association :job
association :detail
end
What I want is for my job factory to be created with a default Detail
of "Full Time".
I've been trying to follow this, but have not had any luck:
FactoryGirl Has Many through
I'm not sure how the after_create
should be used to attach the Detail via JobDetail.
Try something like this. You want to build a detail
object and append it to the job's detail association. When you use after_create
, the created job will be yielded to the block. So you can use FactoryGirl to create a detail object, and add it to that job's details directly.
factory :job do
...
after_create do |job|
job.details << FactoryGirl.create(:detail)
end
end
I faced this issue today and I found a solution. Hope this helps someone.
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :job do
transient do
details_count 5 # if details count is not given while creating job, 5 is taken as default count
end
factory :job_with_details do
after(:create) do |job, evaluator|
(0...evaluator.details_count).each do |i|
job.details << FactoryGirl.create(:detail)
end
end
end
end
end
This allows to create a job like this
create(:job_with_details) #job created with 5 detail objects
create(:job_with_details, details_count: 3) # job created with 3 detail objects
This worked for me
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :job do
# ... Do whatever with the job attributes here
factory :job_with_detail do
# In later (as of this writing, unreleased) versions of FactoryGirl
# you will need to use `transitive` instead of `ignore` here
ignore do
detail { create :detail }
end
after :create do |job, evaluator|
job.details << evaluator.detail
job.save
job_detail = job.job_details.where(detail:evaluator.detail).first
# ... do anything with the JobDetail here
job_detail.save
end
end
end
end
Then later
# A Detail object is created automatically and associated with the new Job.
FactoryGirl.create :job_with_detail
# To supply a detail object to be associated with the new Job.
FactoryGirl.create :job_with_detail detail:@detail
You can solve this problem in the following way:
FactoryBot.define do
factory :job do
# job attributes
factory :job_with_details do
transient do
details_count 10 # default number
end
after(:create) do |job, evaluator|
create_list(:details, evaluator.details_count, job: job)
end
end
end
end
With this, you can create a job_with_details, that has options to specify how many details you want.
You can read this interesting article for more details.