Ruby on rails: Creating a model entry with a belongs_to association

Question

I am trying to add a new entry in my database for a model that has a belongs_to relationship. I have 2 models, Jobs and Clients.

It was easy enough to find tutorial

Answer 1

For creating new instances you could use factories. For this you could simply use FactoryGirl https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl

So after you have defined your factory soewhat like this:

FactoryGirl.define do factory :job do client FactoryGirl.create(:client) subject 'Test' description 'This is a Test'

You could then call FactoryGirl.create(:job) to generate a new job like that. You could also call FactoryGirl.build(:job, client: aClientYouInstantiatedBefore, subject: 'AnotherTest') and also overwrite any other attributes

Factores are good if you want to create many objects, that are similar in a certain way.