Factory already registered: user (FactoryGirl::DuplicateDefinitionError)

Question

Description of problem: - I\'ve setup factory_girl_rails however whenever I try and load a factory it\'s trying to load it multiple times.

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Answer 1

I resolved it by removing spec/factories/xxx.rb from command line:

rspec spec/factories/xxx.rb spec/model/xxx.rb # before
rspec spec/model/xxx.rb # after

Answer 2

I have the same the problem. What I do is move the spec/factories.rb to spec/factories/role.rb

Answer 3

I defined the same name factory at factories.rb, and I just found that someone else define the same factory below the directory of factories. So actually I can just use it without define another one.

Answer 4

I had the same problem recently. In my case one of the files in /factories had a _spec.rb ending (result of creative cp use). It was loading twice, first by rspec and then as a factory.

Answer 5

I renamed spec/factories as spec/setup_data and the problem gone. Try renaming the spec/factories to anything that suites you, should work.

Answer 6

Is there any chance you pasted this whole snippet for the support file from the config docs?

# RSpec
# spec/support/factory_girl.rb
RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods
end

# RSpec without Rails
RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods

  config.before(:suite) do
    FactoryGirl.find_definitions
  end
end

If you read the comments you'll see you only want one block or the other. I made this mistake and got the error stated in the question.