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.

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Answer 1

I solved this because I was trying to create two factories. My feature spec included the line:

let!(:user) { create(:user) }

And then I used a sign_up(user) helper method:

def sign_up(user)
  visit '/users/sign_up'
  fill_in 'Email', with: user.email
  fill_in 'Password', with: user.password
  fill_in 'Password confirmation', with: user.password_confirmation
  click_button 'Sign up'
end

Back to my feature spec, I called:

context 'logging out' do
  before do
    sign_up(user)
  end

...

thus effectively trying to sign up a User that was already being created by the factory.

I altered the sign_up(user) to sign_in(user), and the helper to:

def sign_in(user)
  visit '/users/sign_in'
  fill_in 'Email', with: user.email
  fill_in 'Password', with: user.password
  click_button 'Log in'
end 

now the user argument creates the User in the db due to the let! block and the sign_up(user) logs them in.

Hope this helps someone!

oh! and I also had to comment out:

Dir[Rails.root.join('spec/factories/**/*.rb')].each { |f| require f }

as a lot of the other answers suggest.