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rstewart8
rstewart8

Reputation: 99

Table column name is also ruby reserved keyword

I am using Factory Girl to help in creating records for testing. The problem I am having isn that on of the fields in a table is named 'alias', which is a reserved ruby keyword. This is what I am trying to do:

factory :time_zone do
  id 4
  name "Eastern"
  abbreviation "EST"
  utc "-5"
  alias "America/New_York"
end

I get an error when running tests.

When I tried using self.alias "America/New_York", This is the error that I get.

Failure/Error: FactoryGirl.create(:time_zone, id: 4 , name:"Eastern" , utc:"-5") NoMethodError: undefined method `alias=' for #<TimeZone id: 4, name: "Eastern", abbreviation: "EST", utc: -5>

Note: The self.alias does work on my local machine, but the test is failing using jenkins service for monitoring tests.

How do I make this work?

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 987

Answers (1)

AlexT
AlexT

Reputation: 696

As others have commented, your life will be easier it you use a different name for that column, however if you want to stick with it, you can make factory_girl work by using add_attribute. Your factory would then look like:

factory :time_zone do
  id 4
  name "Eastern"
  abbreviation "EST"
  utc "-5"
  add_attribute :alias, "America/New_York"
end

Upvotes: 4

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