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factory_bot 6.3.0

factory_bot 6.3.0 is out, with Ruby 3.2 support, better docs, and more hooks.
Mike Burns
September 5, 2023
New Docs for factory_bot

We have improved the documentation for factory_bot, the fixture replacement.
Mike Burns
May 24, 2023
A journey towards better Ruby on Rails testing practices

Testing Ruby on Rails and avoiding RSpec and FactoryBot anti-patterns.
Rémy Hannequin
March 14, 2023
- Testing
- Ruby
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- Ruby On Rails
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Tips for Using FactoryBot Without an ORM

Exploring how to use FactoryBot effectively with models backed by plain Ruby objects.
Oli Peate
April 28, 2022
- Factory Girl
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Deprecating static attributes in factory_bot 4.11

Static attributes have been the source of much confusion over the years. Their deprecation will come with a rubocop-rspec Cop to automatically replace with dynamic attributes.
Daniel Colson
August 16, 2018
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- Ruby
factory_bot

factory_girl is becoming factory_bot.
Avielle Wolfe and Josh Clayton
October 24, 2017
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Debugging Why Your Specs Have Slowed Down

Your test suite used to be lightning fast but now it’s starting to feel a bit sluggish. Before adding CI parallelization, let’s see if there’s any clutter to remove.
Mike Wenger
September 22, 2017
- Testing
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- Factory Girl
- Web
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Factories Should be the Bare Minimum

Keep it simple.
Matt Sumner
April 26, 2016
- Testing
- Rails
- Factory Girl
- Web
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Speed Up Tests by Selectively Avoiding Factory Bot

Learn one simple way to speed up your tests with the factory_bot gem!
Josh Clayton
August 14, 2014
- Web
- Rails
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- RSpec
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
FactoryBot for Seed Data?

Occasionally, somebody recommends or asks about using FactoryBot to generate...
Josh Clayton
November 13, 2013
- Web
- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
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