Factory Girl, Spork and Cucumber - duplicate model classes

Rails
1

I am having a strange problem with FactoryGirl, Spork and Cucumber.
It seems to be happening when on a ‘before_validation’ hook another
model object is created and saved.

Below is a cut down version of the model in question. When it is
created via FactoryGirl, I get this error:

Country(#28734490) expected, got Country(#28417320)
(ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch)

class TuteonParent < ActiveRecord::Base

has_one :address, :as => :addressable
has_one :fs_parent_profile

accepts_nested_attributes_for :fs_parent_profile, :address

validates_presence_of :address
validates_associated :address

validates_presence_of :core_profile
validates_associated :core_profile

validates_presence_of :fs_parent_profile
validates_associated :fs_parent_profile

before_validation :create_fs_parent_profile

def create_fs_parent_profile

fs_parent_profile = FsParentProfile.new(
  :state => address.country.name,
  :curriculum_state => address.country.name,
  :country => address.country,
  :fs_curriculum_country =>

FsCurriculumCountry.find_by_country_id(address.country.id)
)

self.fs_parent_profile = fs_parent_profile

end

… and the simplified Factory definition is as follows:

Factory.define :valid_parent, :class => Parent do |p|

tp.address { Factory.create(:address) }

end

If anyone can shed some light on this would be much appreciated!
Thank you

Adam

2

I forgot to add -

this is only an issue with Spork and Cucumber. Rspec and Spork run
fine, and before I got Spork working (I think) this was working with
Cucumber.
I think it may have something to do with where I am loading the
Factories or “require ‘factory_girl’”

I tried to copy the layout from the RSpec spec_helper.rb. This is how
my features/support/env.rb looks like:

require ‘rubygems’
require ‘spork’

Spork.prefork do

ENV[“RAILS_ENV”] ||= “test”
require File.expand_path(File.dirname(FILE) + ‘/…/…/config/
environment’)

require ‘cucumber/formatter/unicode’ # Remove this line if you don’t
want Cucumber Unicode support
require ‘cucumber/rails/world’
require ‘cucumber/rails/active_record’
require ‘cucumber/web/tableish’

require ‘capybara/rails’
require ‘capybara/cucumber’
require ‘capybara/session’

require ‘factory_girl’

Capybara.default_selector = :css

ActionController::Base.allow_rescue = false
Cucumber::Rails::World.use_transactional_fixtures = true
if defined?(ActiveRecord::Base)
begin
require ‘database_cleaner’
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
rescue LoadError => ignore_if_database_cleaner_not_present
end
end

end

Spork.each_run do
require ‘factory_girl_rails’
Dir.glob(File.join(File.dirname(FILE), ‘…/…/spec/factories/
*.rb’)).each {|f| require f }
end

3

OK - solved this issue finally.

I used ‘find’ instead of the association:

def create_fs_parent_profile
self.fs_parent_profile = FsParentProfile.new(
:state => address.country.name,
:curriculum_state => address.country.name,
:country => Country.find(address.country.id),
:fs_curriculum_country =>
FsCurriculumCountry.find_by_country_id(address.country.id)
)

4

I’m experiencing the exact same problem Adam. I haven’t been able to
figure out what is causing it either…

5

Jeff Bigler wrote in post #983094:

I’m experiencing the exact same problem Adam. I haven’t been able to
figure out what is causing it either…

I have returned to the project in question and still having problems
with this… anyone know if this issue has been address yet?

Thank you

6

well, I kinda feel like I am talking to myself here… but although
solving this issue in one part of my app tests, it has come up in
another:

I have a couple of Factories defined -

Factory.define :valid_student, :class => Student do |s|

s.email { “#{Factory.next(:name)}@example.com” }
s.gender ‘female’
s.date_of_birth { Factory.next(:dob) }
s.current_school { Factory.next(:school) }
s.current_school_year 10
s.core_profile { Factory.create(:student_profile) } # <---- this is
causing an error
s.parent { Factory.create(:valid_parent, :tc_check => “1”) }

end

Factory.define :student_profile, :class => CoreProfile do |cp|
cp.first_name ‘Kelly’
cp.last_name ‘Hope’
cp.user_name { Factory.next(:user_name) }
cp.password ‘password’
cp.password_confirmation ‘password’
end

class Student < ActiveRecord::Base

has_one :core_profile, :as => :core_profileable
accepts_nested_attributes_for :core_profile

after_initialize :build_associations

def build_associations
build_core_profile unless core_profile
end

end

The error is similar:
CoreProfile(#26997920) expected, got CoreProfile(#29695630)
(ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch)

Any tips on this would be received with much gratitude!

Thanks
Adam