Populating an association with children in factory_girl

Question

I have a model Foo that has_many \'Bar\'. I have a factory_girl factory for each of these objects. The factory for Bar has an association to Foo; it will instan

Answer 1

FactoryGirl now has a :method => :build option you can use on the association, which will build the associated object rather than creating it.

#64: Building an object creates associations