Question

I am using the cucumber step definitons provided by factory girl and I can not get something to work here.

First of all, here are the involved factories:

Factory.define :user do |u|
  u.name {|n| "User#{n}" }
  u.first_name {|n| "FirstName#{n}"}
  u.last_name {|n| "LastName#{n}"}
  u.password 'please'
  u.password_confirmation 'please'
end

Factory.define :lecture do |l|
  l.name {|n| "Lecture#{n}"}
  l.abbreviation {|n| "lec#{n}"}
  l.association :admin, factory: :user
end

Here is the step I am trying to execute:

And the following Lecture exists:                                        
      | Name                                           | Abbreviation |
      | Informatik A - Algorithmen und Datenstrukturen | ainf         |

I am getting this error message and have absolutely NO idea where it comes from:

User(#42819220) expected, got User(#43753000) (ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch)
      features/lectures/ui.feature:11:in `And the following Lecture exists:'

And here are my model definitions:

    class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  # Include default devise modules. Others available are:
  # :token_authenticatable, :encryptable, :confirmable, :lockable, :timeoutable and :omniauthable
  devise :database_authenticatable, :rememberable, :trackable

      # Setup accessible (or protected) attributes for your model
  attr_accessible :name, :password, :password_confirmation, :remember_me, :first_name, :last_name

  validates_uniqueness_of :name

  has_many :administrated_lectures, class_name: "Lecture", foreign_key: "admin_id", dependent: :nullify
end

class Lecture < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates_uniqueness_of :name
  validates_uniqueness_of :abbreviation

  scope :ordered, order("name")

  belongs_to :admin, class_name: "User"
end

I am using this with spork btw.

Kind regards,

Nils

Answer 1

Oh, damn. Got it. I set cache_classes to false somewhere in the past because proper class reloading did not work for some reason. Just made it true again, and now it works. :/