TDD_many_to_many.md

• to ensure migration runs for test environment

rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test

or

fundsy $ bin/rake db:test:prepare

Factory Girl

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :user do
    first_name {Faker::Name.first_name}
    last_name {Faker::Name.last_name}
    sequence(:email) {|n| "#{n}-#{Faker::Internet.email}"}
    password {Faker::Internet.password}
  end
end

• generates a set of attributes

FactoryGirl.attributes_for(:user)

• builds a record and save it in memory instead of in database

FactoryGirl.build(:user)

• build a record and save it in database

FactoryGirl.create(:user)

• override the FactoryGirl create/build with customized parameters:

u = FactoryGirl.build(:user, {last_name: nil})

• create pledge

support

• create a helper module in spec/support folder called LoginHelpers

• uncomment out the following from rails_helper.rb

Dir[Rails.root.join('spec/support/**/*.rb')].each { |f| require f }

• add the following in the same file:

config.include LoginHelpers

• implement the helper method in the LoginHelpers module

module LoginHelpers
  def signin(user)
    request.session[:user_id] = user.id
  end
end

• then use the helper method in the helper module

signin(user)

• automatically associate child to a new parent if don't specify a parent

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :pledge do
    # this will automatically create a campaign record and associate the pledge
    # record with it, if you don't pass a campaign to the pledge factory
     association :campaign, factory: :campaign
     association :user, factory: :user
    amount {1 + rand(1000)}
  end
end