Rails generators not generating the proper test templates

Question

My project lives here: https://github.com/jonesdeini/ICanHazSandvich

I'm getting setup using minitest-rails add I can't get the generators to generate the correct test templates.

from my application.rb:

config.generators do |g|
  g.test_framework :mini_test, :spec => true, :fixture => false
end

even with "g.test_framework nil" I still get the same test templates generated:

Output:

rails g model Foo
    invoke  active_record
    create    db/migrate/20120827160129_create_foos.rb
    create    app/models/foo.rb
    invoke    test_unit
    create      test/unit/foo_test.rb
    invoke      factory_girl
    create        test/factories/foos.rb

Even with "rails g model Foo --spec" the same files are generated. I'm using rails 3.2.8 and ruby-1.9.3-p194

Thanks for you help!

Gemfile:

group :development, :test do
  gem 'factory_girl_rails'
  gem 'minitest-rails'
  gem 'minitest-rails-capybara'
 end

EDIT:

A pull request has been submitted for this issue https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl_rails/pull/68

Answer 1

The problem is the factory_girl_rails gem. That railtie is assuming either rspec or test_unit, and its configuration is conflicting with your configuration. Here is how I would resolve this:

Change the dependency to the factory_girl gem in your Gemfile file:

group :development, :test do
  gem 'factory_girl'
  gem 'minitest-rails'
  gem 'minitest-rails-capybara'
end

Configure your app to use FactoryGirl in your config/application.rb file:

config.generators do |g|
  g.test_framework :mini_test, spec: true, fixture: false,
                               fixture_replacement: :factory_girl
end

Well, that's not entirely true. How I would really resolve it is to remove FactoryGirl completely, but that's an answer to a different question...

Answer 2

The problem of the factory_girl_rails gem forcing the use of Test::Unit has been fixed by the maintainers, however this has not yet filtered through to rubygems.org.

If you update your Gemfile to contain:

group :development, :test do
  gem 'factory_girl_rails', :git => "git://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl_rails.git"
end

it should all work nicely!