2.1.0 (September 02, 2011) Bugfix: created_at now defined for stubbed models Gemspec updated for use with Rails 3.1 Factories can now be modified post-definition (useful for overriding defaults from gems/plugins) All factories can now be reloaded with Factory.reload Add :method => build to factory associations to prevent saving of associated objects Factories defined in {Rails.root}/factories are now loaded by default Various documentation updates 1.1.4 (November 28, 2008) Factory.build now uses Factory.create for associations of the built object Factory definitions are now detected in subdirectories, such as factories/person_factory.rb (thanks to Josh Nichols) Factory definitions are now loaded after the environment in a Rails project (fixes some issues with dependencies being loaded too early) (thanks to Josh Nichols) Factory names ending in 's' no longer cause problems (thanks to Alex Sharp and Josh Owens) 1.1.3 (September 12, 2008) Automatically pull in definitions from factories.rb, test/factories.rb, or spec/factories.rb 1.1.2 (July 30, 2008) Improved error handling for invalid and undefined factories/attributes Improved handling of strings vs symbols vs classes Added a prettier syntax for handling associations Updated documentation and fixed compatibility with Rails 2.1 1.1.1 (June 23, 2008) The attribute "name" no longer requires using #add_attribute 1.1.0 (June 3, 2008) Added support for dependent attributes Fixed the attributes_for build strategy to not build associations Added support for sequences 1.0.0 (May 31, 208) First version