Intergration test for inheritance

test/integration_test.rb

@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ class IntegrationTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
       f.email { Factory.next(:email) }
     end
     
+    Factory.define :guest, :parent => :user do |f|
+      f.last_name 'Anonymous'
+      f.username  'GuestUser'
+    end
+    
     Factory.sequence :email do |n|
       "somebody#{n}@example.com"
     end
@@ -143,6 +148,28 @@ class IntegrationTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
 
   end
   
+  context "an instance generated by a factory that inherits from another factory" do
+    setup do
+      @instance = Factory.create(:guest)    
+    end
+    
+    should "use the class name of the parent factory" do
+      assert_kind_of User, @instance
+    end
+    
+    should "have attributes of the parent" do
+      assert_equal 'Jimi', @instance.first_name
+    end
+    
+    should "have attributes defined in the factory itself" do
+      assert_equal 'GuestUser', @instance.username
+    end
+    
+    should "have attributes that have been overriden" do
+      assert_equal 'Anonymous', @instance.last_name
+    end
+  end
+
   context "an attribute generated by a sequence" do
 
     setup do