Proper way to require and configure factory_girl

Testing
1

I feel i’m missing something wrt to setting up factory girl so that I can use methods like ‘build’ and ‘create’ without having to call FactoryGirl.build or FactoryGirl.create. As I get started using factory_girl I just want to have a good foundation before creating some bad habits. Here is a minimal example that illustrates what I’m hitting. Any tips appreciated.

rspec -fd spec/some_spec.rb

stuff
  has stuff (FAILED - 1)

Failures:

  1) stuff has stuff
     Failure/Error: let(:resource) { create :stuff }
     NoMethodError:
       undefined method `create' for #<RSpec::ExampleGroups::Stuff:0x007f9c3a102650>
     # ./spec/some_spec.rb:3:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'
     # ./spec/some_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

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1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

rspec ./spec/some_spec.rb:4 # stuff has stuff

tree spec

spec
├── factories.rb
├── some_spec.rb
├── spec_helper.rb
└── support
    └── factory_girl.rb

1 directory, 4 files

head -1 spec/spec_helper.rb

require 'factory_girl'

cat spec/support/factory_girl.rb

# spec/support/factory_girl.rb
RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods
end

cat spec/factories.rb

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :stuff, class: String do
    skip_create
    initialize_with { "This is stuff" }
  end
end

cat spec/some_spec.rb

require_relative 'spec_helper'
describe 'stuff' do
  let(:resource) { create :stuff }
  it 'has stuff' do
    expect(resource).to eq("Blah")
  end
end
2

Are you sure that your spec_helper is requiring support/factory_girl.rb ? Try requiring it from within your test.

3

If i change the require in my spec/spec_helper.rb from
require ‘factory_girl’

to
require_relative ‘support/factory_girl’

AND add
require ‘factory_girl’ into spec/support/factory_girl it works. Not sure if this is ‘correct’ or not but i’ll roll with it.