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I am trying to write a test that simulates some return values from Dropbox's REST service that gives me back data in an Array, with a nested hash. I am having trouble figuring out how to code my Factory since the return result is an array with a has inside. What would go here? Factory.define :dropbox_hash do ?? end Dropbox data looks like this: ["/home", {"revision"=>48, "rev"=>"30054214dc", "thumb_exists"=>false, "bytes"=>0, "modified"=>"Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:53:26 +0000", "path"=>"/Home", "is_dir"=>true, "icon"=>"folder_app", "root"=>"app_folder", "size"=>"0 bytes"}] And I'd like a factory

I have a very strange problem and I don't know where I should look to find it. I am developing a rails 3 app using rspec and factory girl for testing. For some reason, whenever I run any rails commands (eg to rake the db, start the dev server etc) one factory user is created and stored in my development database. The worst part is, it always has the same email, which I am validating the uniqueness of in my app, so the commands won't run until I go in manually delete the record. I have looked all through my factories file and I don't think I am doing anything strange there, and suggestions

Two tests are failing - but only on Ubuntu(12) but not on my (new) Mac. The failure two are Active Record object attribute comparisons but in all my effort to compare them, e.g. making hash's at the command line and pasting the attributes in, the comparison says they are the same. A real puzzler as we have an extensive test suite with many hundreds of tests. Rails 3.2.8, rspec 2.11 Failure/Error: assert_equal @iep_service.attributes, IepService.first.attributes MiniTest::Assertion: <{"id"=>414, "duration"=>30, "frequency"=>3, "period"=>"week", "group_size"=>"group", "location"=>nil, "service"=

I have (belatedly) started testing my Rails app (a shopping website) with RSpec/capybara, using database cleaner to clear the database and Factory Girl to generate new objects for every test (like most people do). This works fine, and I do think it is a good idea to clear the data between tests. However, it can get slow and (as far as I can figure out) a bit tedious to generate multiple instances of the same object. There are some objects that are always the same in my database, or that I will always generate an identical copy of for testing. For example, my Package model, which defines the

I am learning tests with rspec and factory girl on Rails and I can't manage to make them work. My User controller looks like this : class UsersController < ApplicationController def index @users = User.all.order(:first_name) end end and the tests : require 'spec_helper' describe UsersController do before(:each) do @user1 = FactoryGirl.create(:user, first_name: "B", last_name: "B", uid: "b") @user2 = FactoryGirl.create(:user, first_name: "A", last_name: "A", uid: "a") end describe "GET index" do it "sets a list of users sorted by first name" do get :index assigns(:users).should == [@user2,

I am new to Rspec and Factory girl and would like my test to run on a specific database state. I understand I can get Factory girl to create these records, and the objects will be destroyed after the test run, but what happens if I have data in the database. For example: I want my test to run when there are 3 records in the database that I created through Factory Girl. However, I currently already have 1 model record in the database, and I don't want to delete it just for the test. Having that 1 model in there ruins my test. Database Content [#<Leaderboard id: 1, score: 500, name: "Trudy">]