Machinist cheatsheet

About

Machinist is a fixture management library for Ruby.

• https://github.com/notahat/machinist

Installing

# Gemfile
gem 'machinist', '>= 2.0.0.beta2', group: 'test'

# ~$ bundle
# ~$ rails generate machinist:install

Building objects

User.make

# `make` builds it, and `make!` builds+saves it
User.make!
User.make! name: "David"
User.make!(:admin)

Defining blueprints

User.blueprint do
  name  { "User #{sn}" }
  email { "user-#{sn}@example.com" }
end

User.blueprint(:admin) do
  name  { "Admin User #{sn}" }
  admin { true }
end

Associations

Post.blueprint do
  author { User.make }

  comments(3)    # Makes 3 comments (has_many / habtm)

  author         # autodetect (Assumes there's User.blueprint)

end

References

• https://github.com/notahat/machinist