Using FactoryBot in development

If you need dummy data to play around with in development, it's often faster to reuse your existing factories instead of using the UI or creating records in the Rails console. This approach saves time and gives you useful defaults and associations right out of the box.

You can use FactoryBot directly in the Rails console like this:

Copyrequire 'factory_bot_rails' # Not needed if the factory_bot_rails gem is in the :development group
FactoryBot.create(:user)

You can also apply traits or override attributes:

CopyFactoryBot.create(:user, :admin, name: 'Alice')