ModelFactory

by Matthias Hennemeyer <mhennemeyer@gmail.com>

Introduction

Create objects with ease:

  create_user, create_model :attribute => 'value', ...

ModelFactory is available as a Rails plugin. It provides a way to construct model objects from a configuration hash.

The special thing about ModelFactory is that it will also create belongs_to associates.

ModelFactory will first try to find the specified associated model object by id. If the attempt to find it raises an not found error it will try to construct the specified associated model object from the configuration hash.

Usage

  ModelFactory reads the required configuration information from a
  MODEL_FACTORY_MODELS constant that is a hash you have to specify before the require statement in your
  helper file:

  MODEL_FACTORY_MODELS = {
    :user => {
      :attribute1 => 'value1',
      :attribute2 => 'value2',
    },
    :another_model => {
      :attribute => 'value'
    }
  }

  require 'model_factory'

  Now you can use the ModelFactory methods:

  create_user   # => #User attribute1=value1,  attribute2=value2

  create_model  # => #Model attribute=value

  create_model :user_id => 1 # => #Model attribute=value, user_id=1
  This will create a user object from the
  MODEL_FACTORY_MODELS hash if there is no
  user with id=1 in the database.

INSTALL:

  $ ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/mhennemeyer/model_factory.git

Copyright © 2008 Matthias Hennemeyer, released under the MIT license

Owner: Matthias Hennemeyer

Home: http://workunitgroup.com/2008/5/30/modelfactory-rails-plugin

Repository: git://github.com/mhennemeyer/model_factory

License: Rails' (MIT)

Category: Testing