Is it possible to use Factory Girl to update an already instanced factory?

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I am trying to streamline our cukes trying to leverage the wonderful factories built into our system for unit tests.

I am setting up a @bread ||= FactoryGirl.create(:bread) in a background step.

Throughout that feature, I want to add a trait which would be called @bread ||= FactoryGirl.create(:bread, :organic) if the background step did not exist.

Since @bread already exists, is there a way for me to 'update' it with the trait?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 22 '16 at 21:34

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Try something like this (I haven't tested this)

@bread.update(FactoryGirl.attributes_for(:bread, :organic)

answered Jul 22 '16 at 21:34

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should I do a `@bred.reload`? – Vinchbr Jul 22 '16 at 21:47
only it didn't trigger the creation of the ingredients on a `after :create do` – Vinchbr Jul 22 '16 at 21:56

Is it possible to use Factory Girl to update an already instanced factory?

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