describe "a generated attributes hash" do include FactoryBot::Syntax::Methods before do define_model("User") define_model("Comment") define_model("Post", title: :string, body: :string, summary: :string, user_id: :integer) do belongs_to :user has_many :comments end FactoryBot.define do factory :user factory :comment factory :post do title { "default title" } body { "default body" } summary { title } user comments do |c| [c.association(:comment)] end end end end subject { attributes_for(:post, title: "overridden title") } it "assigns an overridden value" do expect(subject[:title]).to eq "overridden title" end it "assigns a default value" do expect(subject[:body]).to eq "default body" end it "assigns a lazy, dependent attribute" do expect(subject[:summary]).to eq "overridden title" end it "doesn't assign associations" do expect(subject).not_to have_key(:user_id) expect(subject).not_to have_key(:user) end end describe "calling `attributes_for` with a block" do include FactoryBot::Syntax::Methods before do define_model("Company", name: :string) FactoryBot.define do factory :company end end it "passes the hash of attributes" do attributes_for(:company, name: "thoughtbot") do |attributes| expect(attributes[:name]).to eq("thoughtbot") end end it "returns the hash of attributes" do expected = nil result = attributes_for(:company) do |attributes| expected = attributes "hello!" end expect(result).to eq expected end end describe "`attributes_for` for a class whose constructor has required params" do before do define_model("User", name: :string) do def initialize(arg1, arg2); end end FactoryBot.define do factory :user do name { "John Doe" } end end end subject { FactoryBot.attributes_for(:user) } its([:name]) { should eq "John Doe" } end