Skip callbacks on Factory Girl and Rspec

Question

I\'m testing a model with an after create callback that I\'d like to run only on some occasions while testing. How can I skip/run callbacks from a factory?

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Answer 1

Calling skip_callback from my factory proved problematic for me.

In my case, I have a document class with some s3-related callbacks in before and after create that I only want to run when testing the full stack is necessary. Otherwise, I want to skip those s3 callbacks.

When I tried skip_callbacks in my factory, it persisted that callback skip even when I created a document object directly, without using a factory. So instead, I used mocha stubs in the after build call and everything is working perfectly:

factory :document do
  upload_file_name "file.txt"
  upload_content_type "text/plain"
  upload_file_size 1.kilobyte
  after(:build) do |document|
    document.stubs(:name_of_before_create_method).returns(true)
    document.stubs(:name_of_after_create_method).returns(true)
  end
end