FactoryGirl screws up rake db:migrate process

bdd, factory-bot, rake, rspec, ruby-on-rails

Solution

I think you need to have factory girl definition like that in Gemfile:

  gem 'factory_girl_rails', :require => false

And then you just require it in your spec_helper.rb like that:

  require 'factory_girl_rails'

This is the way I'm always using this gem. You don't need to require it in other places than spec_helper.rb. Your current desired approach is just wrong.

Problem

I am doing TDD/BDD in Ruby on Rails 3 with Rspec (2.11.0) and FactoryGirl (4.0.0). I have a factory for a Category model: ``` FactoryGirl.define "Category" do factory :category do name "Foo" end end ``` If I drop, create then migrate the database in the test enviroment I get this error: ``` rake aborted! Could not find table 'categories' ``` This problem occurs because FactoryGirl expects the tables to already exist (for some odd reason). If I remove the spec folder from my rails app and do `db:migrate`, it works. Also if I mark `factory-girl-rails` from my `Gemfile` as `:require => false` it also works (then I have to comment that require in order to run rspec). I found some information about this problem here: https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/issues/88 Is there something wrong that I'm doing? How can I "pass by" the FactoryGirl stage in the `db:migration` task?

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