FactoryGirl for dev seeding and tests

gistfile1.rb

# lib/tasks/app.rake

namespace :app do
  desc 'Seed the current env db with "dummy" data'
  task seed: :environment do
    require './lib/seed'
    Seed.start
  end
end

seed.rb

# Make sure to add factory_girl_rails to the "development" and "test" bundler groups.

module Seed
  extend Factory::Syntax::Methods

  def self.start
    puts 'Clearing the existing data'
    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
    DatabaseCleaner.clean

    insert :admin, email: '[email protected]', password: 'password'
    entity = insert :entity
    insert :user, entity: entity, email: '[email protected]', password: 'password'
    program = insert :program
    insert :member, entity: entity

    puts 'Done'
  end

  def self.insert(factory, attributes = {})
    attributes.reverse_merge! attributes_for(factory)
    puts "Inserting: #{factory}, #{attributes}"
    create factory, attributes
  end
end

Thanks a lot, this really helped me out!