{object: literal}: Make Faker work with Factory Girl

Friday, July 31, 2009

If you use the code below, faker will not churn out unique names


Factory.define :user do |u|
  u.first_name Faker::Name.first_name
  u.last_name Faker::Name.last_name
end

However putting curly braces around faker makes it work!


Factory.define :user do |u|
  u.first_name { Faker::Name.first_name }
  u.last_name { Faker::Name.last_name }
end

Unknown said...: save me hours, thanks!; March 9, 2011 at 7:23 PM
Matt 01 said...: Thankss; March 14, 2011 at 4:00 PM
arnodmental said...: Same for me, thanks a lot, I had tried :

Factory.define(:user) do |u|
u.firstname Proc.new { Faker::Name.first_name }
end

But did not return the actuel Proc result.; August 12, 2011 at 12:37 AM
Carl said...: Thanks so much!; February 27, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Gokul said...: thanks for sharing ...; September 4, 2012 at 7:42 AM
Fitria Rahmaani said...: thanks a lot :D; July 16, 2013 at 9:35 PM
Ranska said...: you're my hero !!!; November 27, 2013 at 2:15 AM
Ranska said...: you're my hero !!!; November 27, 2013 at 2:16 AM
Unknown said...: Thanks! However it's not quite clear to me what makes it work with the curly braces.... any chance someone can explain?; November 5, 2014 at 5:49 AM
Jeremy Moritz said...: This still behaves the wrong way. how do i fix it? i need to assign the address to a variable to use more than once, but this is causing it to yield the same result each time i run `create(:store)`

factory :store do
fake_city_name = FFaker::Address.city

name { fake_city_name }
code { fake_city_name.upcase[0..2] }
end; March 1, 2020 at 11:13 AM

{object: literal}