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factory_girl is a fixtures replacement with a straightforward definition syntax, support for multiple build strategies (saved instances, unsaved instances, attribute hashes, and stubbed objects), and support for multiple factories for the same class (user, admin_user, and so on), including factory inheritance.

If you want to use factory_girl with Rails, see
[factory_girl_rails](https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl_rails).

Documentation
-------------

You should find the documentation for your version of factory_girl on [Rubygems](https://rubygems.org/gems/factory_girl).

See [GETTING_STARTED](https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/blob/master/GETTING_STARTED.md) for information on defining and using factories.

Install
--------

```shell
gem install factory_girl
```
or add the following line to Gemfile:

```ruby
gem 'factory_girl'
```
and run `bundle install` from your shell.

Supported Ruby versions
-----------------------

The factory_girl 3.x+ series supports MRI Ruby 1.9. Additionally, factory_girl
3.6+ supports JRuby 1.6.7.2+ while running in 1.9 mode. See
[GETTING_STARTED](https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/blob/master/GETTING_STARTED.md)
for more information on configuring the JRuby environment.

For versions of Ruby prior to 1.9, please use factory_girl 2.x.

More Information
----------------

* [Rubygems](https://rubygems.org/gems/factory_girl)
* [Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/factory-girl)
* [Issues](https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/issues)
* [GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS](http://robots.thoughtbot.com/)

Contributing
------------

Please see the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/blob/master/CONTRIBUTION_GUIDELINES.md).

Credits
-------

factory_girl was originally written by Joe Ferris and is now maintained by Josh
Clayton. Many improvements and bugfixes were contributed by the [open source
community](https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/graphs/contributors).

![thoughtbot](http://thoughtbot.com/assets/tm/logo.png)

factory_girl is maintained and funded by [thoughtbot, inc](http://thoughtbot.com/community)

The names and logos for thoughtbot are trademarks of thoughtbot, inc.

License
-------

factory_girl is Copyright © 2008-2014 Joe Ferris and thoughtbot. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the [LICENSE](https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/blob/master/LICENSE) file.