factories-and-workers at github

Factories and Workers is a Rails plugin originally written by Nathan Herald @ myobie.com after being inspired by Dan Manges’ blog post on factories. It uses some slick metaprogramming to generate factory methods for your ActiveRecord models. Over the past few months I’ve refactored the code, added a bunch of new features, and most importantly wrote some tests!

>> factory :monkey, { :name => "George" }
=> #<FactoryBuilder:0x1a4f2a8>

>> valid_monkey_attributes
=> {:name=>"George"}

>> build_monkey
=> #<Monkey id: nil, name: "George">

>> build_monkey( :name => "Bob" )
=> #<Monkey id: nil, name: "Bob">

>> Monkey.count
=> 0

>> create_monkey
=> #<Monkey id: 1, name: "George">

>> Monkey.count
=> 1

There’s much more info in the README.