Factories-and-workers is now updated to not only be a plugin, but also a gem. Thanks to Jonathan Barket and Nick Hoffman for their help!

It is also now automatically loaded for test and development environments (as a plugin, or do it manually as below with the unless statement). I find this really comes in handy for using it in the rails console to populate your database.

Get It

Add it as a gem dependency to your rails environment.rb:

  config.gem 'dfl-factories-and-workers', :lib => 'factories-and-workers', :source => 'http://gems.github.com' unless RAILS_ENV=='production'

Or install it as a gem manually:

  gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
  sudo gem install dfl-factories-and-workers

Or grab the source:

  git clone git://github.com/dfl/factories-and-workers.git