Test Factories - errors

Question

First, I must say, this video seems incredibly rushed to me. I know you're limiting yourself to time constraints, and I'm aware that you can pause the video - but I'm getting no sense of explanation of anything here. In addition, I don't know why you guys stopped adding complementary code where we could, as a last resort, compare to see any problems.

That said, I copied down the code for factories.rb from the screen anyway, word for word. Before that, I added factory_girl_rails to the gem file in the group :test do portion.. and bundle installed it. I've even run rake:test:prepare.

from the user_friendship_controller_test, I have

    should "create a user friendship" do
      assert users(:baggins).pending_friends.include?(users(:samwise))
    end

and in user_test I have

    test "that creating friendships on a user works" do
    users(:baggins).pending_friends << users(:samwise)
    users(:baggins).pending_friends.reload
    assert users(:baggins).pending_friends.include?(users(:samwise))
    end

Now for the errors

From the command prompt, I tested the user_friendships_controller_test and got this error:

 C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/factory_girl-4.2.0/lib/fact
 ory_girl/definition_proxy.rb:36:in `add_attribute': Both value and block given (
 FactoryGirl::AttributeDefinitionError)

C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby1.9.3/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/factory_girl-4.2.0/lib/fact
ory_girl/definition_proxy.rb:36:in `add_attribute': Both value and block given (
FactoryGirl::AttributeDefinitionError)

Both said "Method missing". While the tests in the video ultimately went fine, I on the other hand got these errors.

Answer 1 · 2013-04-23T16:23:54Z

April 23, 2013 4:23pm

Hey Thomas,

I'm really sorry about the lack of explanation :( What concepts did you feel needed more explanation? I'd be happy to answer any questions here.

Regarding your error, can you paste your test/factories.rb file here? I think that's where the problem is.

Answer 2 · 2013-04-23T16:30:00Z

April 23, 2013 4:30pm

Hi Jason, yeah I realize you had to cover a lot of ground in a short period of time, and really it behooves us watching to read the documentation in addition. Otherwise, there's not enough time for you to go through all the details. Yeah I figured it was in the factories.rb file, but I couldn't figure out exactly what was missing.

    FactoryGirl.define do
       factory :user do
    first_name 'First'
    last_name 'Last'
    sequences(:email) {|n| "user#{n}@example.com"}
    sequence(:profile_name) {|n| "user#{n}"}

    password "mypassword"
    password_confirmation "mypassword"
end

    factory :user_friendship do
    association :user, factory: :user
    association :friend, factory: :user

    factory :pending_user_friendship do
        state 'pending'
    end

    factory :requested_user_friendship do
        state 'requested'
    end

    factory :accepted_user_friendship do
        state 'accepted'
    end
end
end

Answer 3 · 2013-04-23T16:39:49Z

April 23, 2013 4:39pm

Try changing the line:

sequences(:email) {|n| "user#{n}@example.com"}

To:

sequence(:email) {|n| "user#{n}@example.com"}

Answer 4 · 2013-04-23T16:47:10Z

April 23, 2013 4:47pm

Ah.. of course. I totally missed that. Bummer! Thank you.

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Test Factories - errors

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