Why does FactoryBot.find_definitions automatically create data?

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Why does FactoryBot.find_definitions automatically create data?

adambruss opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

We've tried using FactoryBotRails and plain old FactoryBot (no customization). Why is this default behavior? I can't think of a single use case where that would be needed.

We're using Ruby 2.3.1 and Rails 5.1

Thanks!

Daniel Colson · Answer 1 · Sun Apr 29 2018 02:26:19 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Can you provide a bit more information? What do you mean by "automatically create data"? FactoryBot.find_definitions just loads the files where your factories are defined. A factory definition on its own should not be creating any data.

Daniel Colson · Answer 2 · Tue Jun 12 2018 05:55:16 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm going to close for now. Feel free to reopen with a bit more information if this is still an issue. Thanks!