when does factory girl create objects in db?

Question

I am trying to simulate a session using FactoryGirl/shoulda (it worked with fixtures but i am having problems with using factories). I have following f

Answer 1

Factory(:user) is a shortcut for Factory.create(:user) so within your setup you are creating two objects and saving them to the database.

Factory.build(:user) will create you a user record without saving it to the DB.

EDIT

Within your session_user factory you are creating a user and then creating another within your test setup. FactoryGirl will create a new user record because you have the association in the session_user factory.

You can either get your user instance from the session_user object as follows :-

 context "normal user" do
  setup do
   session = Factory(:session_user)  
   @request.session[:session_id] = session.session_id
   @request.session[:user_id] = session.user_id
  end

or you can add some details to the user factory to ensure unique name and email addresses as follows :-

Factory.define :user do |u| 
 u.sequence(:login) {|n| "quentin#{n}" }
 u.sequence(:email) {|n| "quentin#{n}@example.com"}
end