Cucumber factory 1.10.0 released
I've pushed an update to Cucumber factory that simplifies working with FactoryGirl factories.
Say you define a factory with the class: option:
factory :admin, class: User
email
admin true
end
In the past, you had to write
Given there is a user (admin)
Now you can simply write
Given there is an admin
The class is inferred from the factory.
Related cards:
FactoryBot: How to get the class from a factory name
When you want to look up a class for a given factory, do it like this:
>> FactoryBot.factories.find('admin').build_class
=> User
In older versions, you could do:
>> FactoryBot.factory_by_name('admin').build_class
=> User
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FactoryBot.define do
factory :user do
screen_name 'john'
email 'foo@bar.de'
trait :with_profile do
age 18
description 'lorem ipsum'
end...
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...
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Upgrade gems
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Upgrade cucumber_priority:
bundle update cucumber_priority
Upgr...