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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