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basic_factory_setup.md

🎲 Define a Basic Factory​

Factories are blueprints for test data in FactoryBot. Start by creating a factory in spec/factories, specifying default attributes for your model. You can then use build or create in your specs to generate instances easily.

# spec/factories/users.rb
FactoryBot.define do
  factory :user do
    name  { "John Doe" }
    email { "john.doe@example.com" }
  end
end

Use in tests:

# build does not persist to the database
test_user = build(:user)

# create saves the record to the database
persisted_user = create(:user)