Should I stub the model in Factory girl or in the spec file while testing?

Question

Almost every spec file I come accross I end up writing stuff like:

  before :each do
    @cimg = Factory.build :cimg_valid
    @cimg.stub(:validate_img).and_retu         


        

Answer 1

In recent versions of factory_girl you have an after_build callback, so I believe you could define your factory like this:

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :cimg_for_testing_tags do

    ... # Factory attributes

    after_build do |cimg|
      cimg.stub(:validate_img).and_return true
    end
  end
end

UPDATE

After factory_girl 3.3.0, the syntax has changed to following:

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :cimg_for_testing_tags do

    ... # Factory attributes

    after(:build) do |cimg|
      cimg.stub(:validate_img).and_return true
    end
  end
end