Added factory_girl

Factories will replace spec helper methods created for generating test data. Factories are more flexible than the helpers.

Gemfile

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ gem 'sinatra'
 gem 'yajl-ruby'
 
 
-gem 'mongoid', "~>5.0"
+gem 'mongoid', '~> 5.0.0'
 gem 'bson', '~>3.1'
 gem 'bson_ext'
 gem 'protected_attributes'
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ gem 'mongoid-tree', :git => 'https://github.com/macdiesel/mongoid-tree'
 gem 'rs_voteable_mongo', :git => 'https://github.com/navneet35371/voteable_mongo.git'
 gem 'mongoid_magic_counter_cache'
 
-gem 'faker'
 gem 'will_paginate_mongoid', "~>2.0"
 gem 'rdiscount'
 gem 'nokogiri', "~>1.6.7.1"
@@ -40,12 +39,14 @@ gem 'dalli'
 gem 'rest-client'
 
 group :test do
-  gem 'rspec'
-  gem 'rack-test', :require => "rack/test"
+  gem 'codecov', :require => false
+  gem 'database_cleaner', '~> 1.5.1'
+  gem 'factory_girl', '~> 4.0'
+  gem 'faker', '~> 1.6'
   gem 'guard'
   gem 'guard-unicorn'
-  gem 'codecov', :require => false
-  gem 'database_cleaner', "~>1.5.1" 
+  gem 'rack-test', :require => 'rack/test'
+  gem 'rspec', '~> 2.11.0'
 end
 
 gem 'newrelic_rpm'

Gemfile.lock

@@ -55,8 +55,10 @@ GEM
       unf (>= 0.0.5, < 1.0.0)
     enumerize (0.11.0)
       activesupport (>= 3.2)
-    faker (1.0.1)
-      i18n (~> 0.4)
+    factory_girl (4.5.0)
+      activesupport (>= 3.0.0)
+    faker (1.6.1)
+      i18n (~> 0.5)
     guard (1.3.2)
       listen (>= 0.4.2)
       thor (>= 0.14.6)
@@ -173,11 +175,12 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   delayed_job
   delayed_job_mongoid
   enumerize
-  faker
+  factory_girl (~> 4.0)
+  faker (~> 1.6)
   guard
   guard-unicorn
   i18n
-  mongoid (~> 5.0)
+  mongoid (~> 5.0.0)
   mongoid-tree!
   mongoid_magic_counter_cache
   newrelic_rpm
@@ -192,10 +195,13 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   rdiscount
   rest-client
   rs_voteable_mongo!
-  rspec
+  rspec (~> 2.11.0)
   sinatra
   tire (= 0.6.2)
   tire-contrib
   unicorn
   will_paginate_mongoid (~> 2.0)
   yajl-ruby
+
+BUNDLED WITH
+   1.11.2

spec/factories.rb

+require 'faker'
+
+# Reload i18n data for faker
+I18n.reload!
+
+FactoryGirl.define do
+  factory :user do
+    # Initialize the model with all attributes since we are using a custom _id field.
+    # See https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/issues/544.
+    initialize_with { new(attributes) }
+
+    sequence(:username) { |n| "#{Faker::Internet.user_name}_#{n}" }
+    sequence(:external_id) { username }
+  end
+
+  factory :comment_thread do
+    title { Faker::Lorem.sentence }
+    body { Faker::Lorem.paragraph }
+    course_id { Faker::Lorem.word }
+    thread_type :discussion
+    commentable_id { Faker::Lorem.word }
+    association :author, factory: :user
+    group_id nil
+    pinned false
+
+    trait :subscribe_author do
+      after(:create) do |thread|
+        thread.author.subscribe(thread)
+      end
+    end
+
+    trait :with_group_id do
+      group_id { Faker::Number.number(4) }
+    end
+  end
+
+  factory :comment do
+    association :author, factory: :user
+    comment_thread { parent ? parent.comment_thread : create(:comment_thread) }
+    body { Faker::Lorem.paragraph }
+    course_id { comment_thread.course_id }
+    commentable_id { comment_thread.commentable_id }
+  end
+end

spec/spec_helper.rb

@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ end
 
 require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', 'app')
 
-require 'sinatra'
 require 'rack/test'
+require 'sinatra'
 require 'yajl'
-require 'database_cleaner'
 
 require 'support/database_cleaner'
 require 'support/elasticsearch'
+require 'support/factory_girl'
 
 # setup test environment
 set :environment, :test

spec/support/factory_girl.rb

+require 'factory_girl'
+
+RSpec.configure do |config|
+  config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods
+
+  FactoryGirl.find_definitions
+
+  config.before(:suite) do
+    begin
+      DatabaseCleaner.start
+      FactoryGirl.lint
+    ensure
+      DatabaseCleaner.clean
+    end
+  end
+end