Question

How do you debug factory_girl? i’ve tried to put debugger in there but i just cant. I just want to test why my associations aren’t working right

Answer 1

How did you use the debugger? If you tried to use it in test environment, I’m not surprised it didn’t work. But factory_girl is not limited to test environment.

Simply require factory_girl gem and relevant factories in development environment, start the server with debugger (or just console) and you’re set for debugging.

UPDATE

I have this setup in https://github.com/lstejskal/icanhazblog. When you install it and run ‘rails console’, you can then do stuff like:

$ a = Factory.create :article
=> #<Article _id: 4dc27b867319e80fb2000001, created_at: 2011-05-05 10:27:18 UTC,
updated_at: 2011-05-05 10:27:18 UTC, title: "Article 1", content: "This is a content
for Article 1.", visible: true, published_at: 2011-02-11 23:00:00 UTC, tags: ["ruby",
"rails", "sinatra"]> 
$ a.title
=> "Article 1" 

Just add something like this when starting in development mode:

require 'factory_girl'
# require factories
Dir["#{PATH_TO_FACTORIES}/*.rb"].each { |f| require f }