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 had same problem. This happens becouse of you using gem 'refinerycms-testing'? wich requires factory-girl, so you should commit this gem, or commit gem 'factory_girl_rails', don't use all of this gems.

    #gem 'refinerycms-testing', '~> 2.0.9', :group => :test
    gem 'factory_girl_rails', :group => :test

or

    #gem 'factory_girl_rails', :group => :test
    gem 'refinerycms-testing', '~> 2.0.9', :group => :test 

Answer 2

try to run

rake db:test:prepare

Answer 3

In my case,

First my co-worker has setup the project with factory_girl gem with

Dir[Rails.root.join('spec/factories/**/*.rb')].each { |f| require f }

in rails_helper.

After some days, I replaced the gem with factory_girl_rails. Since this new gem also does that internally so factories were registered twice. This was causing the error.

Removed that line from rails_helper and it worked.