FactoryGirl and has_and_belongs_to_many (20 feb 13)
If you have a table roles_users, and
user has_and_belongs_to_many :roles
and
role has_and_belongs_to_many :users
you cannot say
factory :administrator, :parent => :user do
...
roles { [ create( :admin ) ] }
end
but you can do this
factory :admin, :parent => :role do
...
users { [ create( :administrator ) ] }
end
providing you have defined user, administrator and role.
Another thing - in factories.rb it's no good doing this
retrieval_date '01/17/2011'
you have to do this
retrieval_date Date.new(2011, 1, 17)