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Ahkshay Ravi
Ahkshay Ravi

Reputation: 49

Factory Girl trouble in initialize

I have a model where multiple params are passed to the initialize during object instantiation. Is there a way how i can skip the method from getting executed at all in factorygirl.

My model file is shown below:

class WebResponseCache < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_presence_of :q, :results

  self.table_name = "web_response_cache"

  def initialize(q, results)
    super()
    self.q = q
    self.results = results
  end

My factory girl code is shown below:

FactoryGirl.define do    
  factory :google_web_response_cache, :class => WebResponseCache do
    initialize_with { new('query', 'results') }
  end
end

Upvotes: 0

Views: 348

Answers (1)

chumakoff
chumakoff

Reputation: 7044

You can't skip this method from getting executed, as it is the constructor. But you can change it in order to make the parameters unnecessary.

  def initialize(attrs = nil)
    super()
    return unless attrs

    self.q = attrs[:q]
    self.results = attrs[:results]
  end

Now you can do 

WebResponseCache.new # no params passed
WebResponseCache.new(q: 'query', results: 'results') # will be initialized with given params

And now you don't need initialize_with block in your factory.

Upvotes: 3

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