Getting Started with Testing Data
Explore methods for generating reliable test data in Rails applications by comparing fixtures and factories. Understand how each approach impacts test speed, reliability, and maintenance to improve your test data strategies.
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Test data
Creating test data sounds like it should be the easiest thing ever. We already have ActiveRecord#create. We might ask ourselves, isn’t that enough? Not quite. To be useful, the data we generate for the tests needs to support the goals of testing. We should be able to create the data quickly and easily, both in the amount of typing it takes to ...