How can I reset a factory_girl sequence?

Question

Provided that I have a project factory

Factory.define :project do |p|
  p.sequence(:title)    { |n| \"project #{n} title\"                  }
  p.sequence(:         


        

Answer 1

Just call FactoryGirl.reload in your before/after callback. This is defined in the FactoryGirl codebase as:

module FactoryGirl
  def self.reload
    self.factories.clear
    self.sequences.clear
    self.traits.clear
    self.find_definitions
  end
end

Calling FactoryGirl.sequences.clear is not sufficient for some reason. Doing a full reload might have some overhead, but when I tried with/without the callback, my tests took around 30 seconds to run either way. Therefore the overhead is not enough to impact my workflow.

Answer 2

To reset particular sequence you can try

# spec/factories/schedule_positions.rb
FactoryGirl.define do
  sequence :position do |n| 
    n
  end

  factory :schedule_position do
    position
    position_date Date.today
    ...
  end
end

# spec/models/schedule_position.rb
require 'spec_helper'

describe SchedulePosition do
  describe "Reposition" do
    before(:each) do
      nullify_position
      FactoryGirl.create_list(:schedule_position, 10)
    end
  end

  protected

  def nullify_position
    position = FactoryGirl.sequences.find(:position)
    position.instance_variable_set :@value, FactoryGirl::Sequence::EnumeratorAdapter.new(1)
  end
end

Answer 3

Had to ensure sequences are going from 1 to 8 and restart to 1 and so on. Implemented like this:

class FGCustomSequence
  def initialize(max)
    @marker, @max = 1, max
  end
  def next
    @marker = (@marker >= @max ? 1 : (@marker + 1))
  end
  def peek
    @marker.to_s
  end
end

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :image do
    sequence(:picture, FGCustomSequence.new(8)) { |n| "image#{n.to_s}.png" }
  end
end

The doc says "The value just needs to support the #next method." But to keep you CustomSequence object going through it needs to support #peek method too. Lastly I don't know how long this will work because it kind of hack into FactoryGirl internals, when they make a change this may fail to work properly