BlueprintsBoy

The ultimate DRY and fast solution to loading test data in Ruby and Rails. Blueprints allows you to create and manage data for tests in simple but powerful ways.

Documentation

Add gem to you Gemfile:

gem 'database_cleaner-active_record'
gem 'blueprints_boy'

In spec/spec_helper.rb or test/test_helper.rb:

Blueprints.enable

In spec/blueprints.rb or test/blueprints.rb:

blueprint :apple do
  Fruit.create!(species: 'apple')
end

# Or use a shorthand

factory(Fruit).blueprint :apple, species: 'apple'

In test case:

it "has species 'apple'" do
  build :apple
  expect(apple.species).to eq('apple')
end

For documentation please visit andriusch.github.io/blueprints_boy

Development

• Clone the repository
• Setup dependencies

  bundle
  appraisal install

• Do your changes
• Run tests

  docker-compose up
  rubocop
  appraisal rake
  

• Create pull request

Credits

Andrius Chamentauskas andrius.chamentauskas@gmail.com

Some ideas are based on hornsby scenario plugin by Lachie Cox, which was based on code found on errtheblog.com/posts/61-fixin-fixtures

License

MIT, see LICENCE