Rspec, calling methods on factory object

Question

I have a factory that creates a "Character" object, but before I can this object, I must call a method called "init" that instantiates a lot of important attributes and associations. How would I call this method before I start testing the character object?

Because it interacts with a DB, I don't think it would be a good idea to call it at each "it" block

Answer 1

Look at the the doc here.

There are useful callbacks you can add in your factories:

• after(:build) - called after a factory is built (via FactoryGirl.build, FactoryGirl.create)
• before(:create) - called before a factory is saved (via FactoryGirl.create)
• after(:create) - called after a factory is saved (via FactoryGirl.create)
• after(:stub) - called after a factory is stubbed (via FactoryGirl.build_stubbed)