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I have some specs, written in RSpec, that test various models. I use Factory Girl to generate object for testing. Now the most peculiar thing happens: When i run rspec spec/models/specific_model_spec.rb --- this passes all the tests in that spec However, when I run rspec spec/models --- every test in this spec fails referring to an invalid association being created (via a factory) The association created by the factory is obviously valid as running the test in isolation also shows. What could be causing this behavior? Update: The error i get when running the spec together with other specs (the

I'm trying to write a request test that asserts that the proper links appear on the application layout depending in whether a user is logged in or out. FWIW, I'm using Devise for the authentication piece. Here's my spec: require 'spec_helper' require 'devise/test_helpers' describe "Layout Links" do context "the home page" do context "session controls" do context "for an authenticated user" do before do # I know these should all operate in isolation, but I # want to make sure the user is explicitly logged out visit destroy_user_session_path @user = Factory(:user, :password => "Asd123",

I am using devise, rolify and cancan. I'm also using rspec with FactoryGirl for testing. Right now I'm working on some tests and I want to define users with different roles for those tests. Here is my current guess for how to do that using FactoryGirl: FactoryGirl.define do factory :user do name 'Test User' email 'example@example.com' password 'please' password_confirmation 'please' # required if the Devise Confirmable module is used confirmed_at Time.now factory :admin do self.has_role :admin end factory :curator do self.has_role :curator end factory :super_admin do self.has_role :super_admin

I'm trying to use factory_girl to create a "user" factory (with RSpec) however it doesn't seem to be operating transactionally and is apparently failing because of remnant data from previous tests in the test database. Factory.define :user do |user| user.name "Joe Blow" user.email "joe@blow.com" user.password 'password' user.password_confirmation 'password' end @user = Factory.create(:user) Running the first set of tests is fine: spec spec/ ... Finished in 2.758806 seconds 60 examples, 0 failures, 11 pending All good and as expected, however running the tests again: spec spec/ ... /Library

The Factory Girl introduction delineates the difference between FactoryGirl.build() and FactoryGirl.create() : # Returns a User instance that's not saved user = FactoryGirl.build(:user) # Returns a saved User instance user = FactoryGirl.create(:user) I still doesn't understand the practical differences between the two. Can someone give an example where you would want to use one and not the other? Thanks! Helio Santos The create() method persists the instance of the model while the build() method keeps it only on memory. Personally, I use the create() method only when persistence is really