Question

I want that when I make changes in factories, I see them in rails console without restarting all console.

I’ve found some lines and tested them with a poor understanding of what’s going on, documentation isn’t clear for me.:

FactoryGirl.reload

I’ve also tested:

> FactoryGirl.factories.clear
> FactoryGirl.find_definitions # also tested FactoryGirl.factories.find_definitions
                               # but NoMethodError is raised
=> ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound: Couldn't find Address with ID=277 Torphy Squares

Answer 1

I was using Faker. See the diff of changes that solved the problem:

# factories/building.rb, address is a string

- address    Faker::Address.street_address
+ address    { Faker::Address.street_address }

# factories/user.rb, email is a string

- email Faker::Internet.email
+ email { Faker::Internet.email }

And then FactoryGirl.reload works.