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A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

17 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 7 stories, 10 comments · first 2012-09-06 · latest 2025-05-04

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    A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data
    story by mooreds · 2025-05-04 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: Factory-JS – TypeScript dummy object generator for testing
    story by ktmouk · 2024-03-30 · 0 comments
  3. …be more valuable, as it also help to push people outside of the target to your other brands. [0] https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/wiki
    comment by makeitdouble · 2023-02-06 · in You can’t bribe, threaten, or feed people to get them back in the office
  4. …calls are or also by tailing Postgres log files. [1] https://github.com/FactoryBoy/factory_boy [2] https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot [3] https://github.com/jazzband/django-debug-toolbar
    comment by scwoodal · 2022-01-18 · in PostgreSQL query performance bottlenecks
  5. …from that is we are talking about mocking some function which generates objects. Something like https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot > This is no different from mocking other system boundaries, which I have already addressed. Changing…
    comment by realusername · 2021-06-01 · in Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer
  6. …or petty word changes have a wider context that are not as simple as it looks on the surface. [0] https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/1053
    comment by hrktb · 2020-07-11 · in Linux 5.8 Formally Adds the Inclusive Terminology Guidelines
  7. …things where we can. There are a few great examples including: 1. FactoryGirl -> FactoryBot: https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921 2. Whitelist -> Allowlist API in Rails: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/33677 The irony…
    comment by davidlumley · 2020-06-08 · in The RuboCop Name Drama Redux
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    FactoryGirl gets renamed to FactoryBot
    story by swat535 · 2017-10-30 · 0 comments
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    Rename of FactoryGirl to FactoryBot has broken my projects
    story by Sujan · 2017-10-22 · 0 comments
  10. …do), but my subjective impression was that she felt uncomfortable. I also felt uncomfortable." [0]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921
    comment by sprremix · 2017-10-22 · in FactoryGirl has been renamed FactoryBot
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    FactoryGirl has been renamed FactoryBot
    story by orenyk · 2017-10-22 · 0 comments
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    Ruby library FactoryGirl renamed to FactoryBot
    story by justinjlynn · 2017-10-21 · 0 comments
  13. https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921 - Here is the original issue. And yes, it's about sexism, even though the name was a reference to a factory pattern and a song. https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot/issues/921#issuec…
    comment by ainar-g · 2017-10-21 · in FactoryGirl has been renamed to FactoryBot
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    FactoryGirl has been renamed to FactoryBot
    story by joshfng · 2017-10-21 · 3 comments
  15. …in the Ruby world: https://github.com/stympy/faker (which states to be a port from Perl) and https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl I use them in a Rails db/seed.rb file to create a new dev db every time I need new data to play with,…
    comment by pmontra · 2014-12-17 · in Fake2db – Generate fake but valid data-filled databases
  16. …[2]: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-rails [3]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda [4]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl [5]: https://github.com/nulldb/nulldb [6]: https://github.com/notahat/machinist [7]:…
    comment by tomjakubowski · 2012-12-27 · in Rails is omakase
  17. …list of git tags ( http://learn.github.com/p/tagging.html ), and they're on the current site, e.g. https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/tags
    comment by gabebw · 2012-09-06 · in How we keep GitHub fast