Question

I’ve defined a factory called admin_user but I am getting an error when I try to use it:

factories/user_factory.rb:

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :user do
    email "example_user@example"
    password "password"
  end

  factory :admin_user do
    email "[e-mail]"
    password "admin_password"
  end
end

authentication_steps.rb:

Given /^I have a valid admin account$/ do
  @user = FactoryGirl.create(:admin_user)
end

I am getting the following error when I run that step:

uninitialized constant AdminUser (NameError)

Is there some syntax I’m not following correctly?

Thanks

Answer 1

You should specify the class of :user_admin:

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :admin_user, :class => User do
    email "[e-mail]"
    password "admin_password"
  end
end

Explanations:

When you use factory :admin_user do, FactoryGirl looks automatically for the AdminUser class, which doesn’t exist.
Thus, you have to tell it which class to use by adding :class => User.