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Passing Additional Arguments to FactoryGirl Factories
I wanted to create a factory that would link various states to my model, but from a specified list instead of automatically generated. I discovered that these are transient attributes: FactoryGirl.define do factory :business do name “MyString” # # # trait :with_states do ignore do state_list [] end # add association equal to state code…
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Rails 4, Empty Hashes, Strong Parameters, exception_notification and filtering out my new ActionController::ParameterMissing errors
I’m finally coming around to the “strong parameters” pattern encouraged (required?) in Rails 4. One thing that I did notice was that missing the base parameter raised an ActionController::ParameterMissing error. I discovered this via controllers tests generated by rspec-rails when I created a controller scaffold, which generates tests for “Invalid Params”: In the controller spec:…
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Bundler reports errors across several different projects when running `bundle install`
When running bundle install, I was getting the following for several projects: Bundler gave the error “Could not find {gem_name_version} in any of the sources” while processing “{project_path}/Gemfile”. Perhaps you forgot to run “bundle install”? . . . I found someone else was having the same problem too. In my case, I had uninstalled and…