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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
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- Ruby
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factory_bot

factory_girl is becoming factory_bot.
Avielle Wolfe and Josh Clayton
October 24, 2017
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- RSpec
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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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- Web
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Factories Should be the Bare Minimum

Keep it simple.
Matt Sumner
April 26, 2016
- Testing
- Rails
- Factory Girl
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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
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FactoryBot for Seed Data?

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

There are times in your tests when you need to create multiple instances of...
Derek Prior
July 13, 2013
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- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Testing Your Factories First

Have you ever added a seemingly innocent validation to a model, like so:...
Reade Harris
September 6, 2012
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- Factory Bot
Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryBot's Cucumber Steps

For almost three years now, FactoryBot1 has provided developers using...
Josh Clayton
June 25, 2012
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- Ruby
- Testing
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Remove Duplication with FactoryBot's Traits

FactoryBot’s traits are an outstanding way to DRY up your tests and factories...
Josh Clayton
May 24, 2012
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- Testing
- Ruby
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- Factory Bot
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