FactoryGirl build_stubbed strategy with a has_many association

Question

Given a standard has_many relationship between two objects. For a simple example, let\'s go with:

class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :line_items
         


        

Answer 1

I've seen this answer floating around, but ran into the same problem you had: FactoryGirl: Populate a has many relation preserving build strategy

The cleanest way that I've found is to explicitly stub out the association calls as well.

require 'rspec/mocks/standalone'

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :order do
    ignore do
      line_items_count 1
    end

    after(:stub) do |order, evaluator|
      order.stub(line_items).and_return(FactoryGirl.build_stubbed_list(:line_item, evaluator.line_items_count, :order => order))
    end
  end
end

Hope that helps!