Factory already registered: user (FactoryGirl::DuplicateDefinitionError)

Question

Description of problem: - I\'ve setup factory_girl_rails however whenever I try and load a factory it\'s trying to load it multiple times.

Envir         


        

Answer 1

https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/issues/638

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Loading factory girl into a development console will do this too:

require 'factory_girl_rails'; reload!; FactoryGirl.factories.clear; FactoryGirl.find_definitions

will raise a FactoryGirl::DuplicateDefinitionError on a sequence under Factory Girl v4.4.0.

It seems the sequences get handled differently within FG and simply wrapping all sequences in a rescue block will solve the issue.

For example:

  begin
    sequence :a_sequence do |n|
      n
    end
    sequence :another_sequence do |n|
      n*2
    end
  rescue FactoryGirl::DuplicateDefinitionError => e
    warn "#{e.message}"
  end