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

Using factory_girl-4.5.0, create n child objects in a parent object factory

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :foo do
    name "test"        

    after(:build) do |instance|
      n.times { instance.bars << FactoryGirl.create(:bar) }          
    end
  end
end