FLOOR MANAGER - when your job is handling the girls

The floor manager manages a whole graph of objects and lets you create them 
in memory or the database for the duration of a test. 

You need two posts that are linked up to the same author? [1] Easy: 

  FloorManager.define :first do
    one :author do  
      name 'John Smith'
    end
  
    any :post do
      title 'The posts title'
      author.set :author
    end
  end

And in your tests: 
  
  before(:each) do
    FloorManager.reset
    
    floor = FloorManager.get(:floor)
    posts = [floor.create(:post), floor.create(:post)]
  end
  
This gives you two posts to test against. Both posts will have the same
author, right down to the database id. 

Look here for more documentation: 
http://blog.absurd.li/2011/09/28/introducing_floor_manager.html

INSTALLATION

Either by installing from http://github.com/kschiess/floor_manager as a rails
plugin or by using rubygems:

  gem install floor_manager
  
Then just require it atop of your floor definitions as follows: 

  require 'floor_manager'
  # Your floors go here...

COMPATIBILITY

Has been tested with Ruby 1.9.2/1.8.7 MRI and ActiveRecord/DataMapper.

STATUS

Useful in daily life. 
  
AUTHOR

Kaspar Schiess (kaspar.schiess@absurd.li)

[1] http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/159807023/waiting-for-a-factory-girl