Question

Good day, currently i’m struggling with this error.

Failure/Error: FactoryGirl.create(:subscription)
NoMethodError:
undefined method `attribute_list’ for “AdvtCategories”:String

i can’t find correct solution for this error. what i found was a suggestion that some column is the same name as the class. didn’t help
my test

 describe Subscription do
  context "validations" do
    #it { should validate_presence_of :category_id }
    it do
      FactoryGirl.create(:category)
      FactoryGirl.create(:subscription)
      should validate_uniqueness_of( :category_id).scoped_to(:user_id) 
    end
   # TODO validator :category_should_exist
  end  
  #it { should belong_to(:user) }
  #it { should belong_to(:category) }
  #specify { Subscription.per_page.should eq(20) }
end

factories:

factory :subscription do
    association :category, factory: :category, :class => 'AdvtCategory'
    user
  end

factory :category do
    name "MyString"
    alias_name "MyString"
    number_of_items 1
    type ""
  end

UPDATE 1
it’s a factory_girl error. solving it

UPDATE 2

it’s factory_girl error on create (build passes of course, so db error)
updated code

Answer 1

Changed from one class to another.

require 'spec_helper'
describe Subscription do
  before do
    FactoryGirl.create(:subscription)
  end

  context "validations" do
    it { should validate_presence_of :category_id }
    it do

      should validate_uniqueness_of( :category_id).scoped_to(:user_id).with_message(/уже создана/) 
    end
  end  
  it { should belong_to(:user) }
  it { should belong_to(:category) }
  specify { Subscription.per_page.should eq(20) }
end


  factory :subscription do
    association :category, factory: :advt_category 
    user
  end
  factory :advt_category do
    name 'Category'
    alias_name '1'
  end