Example of factory_girl factory for model that has paperclip attachment

factory_girl attachments for paperclip

require 'action_controller/test_process'

# Paperclip attachments in factories, made easy based on technicalpickles
Factory.class_eval do
  def attach(name, path, content_type = nil)
    if content_type
      add_attribute name, ActionController::TestUploadedFile.new("#{RAILS_ROOT}/#{path}", content_type)
    else
      add_attribute name, ActionController::TestUploadedFile.new("#{RAILS_ROOT}/#{path}")
    end
  end
end

Factory.sequence :badge do |n|
  "name#{n}"
end

Factory.define :badge do |badge|
  badge.name         { Factory.next :badge }
  badge.active       { true }
  badge.description  { "You get this when you are awesome" }
  badge.tags         { "cool awesome" }
  badge.site         { |badge| badge.association(:site) }
  badge.attach       ( "image", "test/fixtures/flower.png", "image/png" )
end