LazyFixtures

Generator to create factory girl fixtures, just with a simple ActiveRecord object from your current database.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'lazy_fixtures'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install lazy_fixtures

Inside your console simple type LazyFixtures.generate(instance) replace instance with any ActiveRecord object form your current database, lazy_fixtures will generate the corresponding file inside and fixture your project.

Configuration of the gem goes inside an initilizer.

require 'factory_girl'

FactoryGirl.factories.clear
FactoryGirl.find_definitions

LazyFixtures.configure do |config|
  config.factory_directory = "spec/factories"
  config.factory_names = FactoryGirl.factories.map(&:name)
end

This lines will tell the gem where to store the files and it will give them a list with your actual Factory Girl fixtures, with this it will avoid factory girl exceptions.

There are several options you can pass to the generator

1. nested => by default is set to false, set this to true and will traverse all the associations from your object and will create those fixtures for you as well.
2. overwrite => by default is set to false, set this to true and will overwrite the file with same name inside the fixtures folder that you specify. If for some reason it finds a file with the same name and the option is set to false it will ask you if you want to overwrite. That choice is up to you :-)
3. create => by default is set to true, this options tell the generator to create the file, if is set to false it will not generate any file.
4. skip_attr => this accept an array of string which will remove those attributes from the object.
5. change_attr => this accepts a hash with new values for the fixture you want to set.

###This will create a client fixture:

LazyFixtures.generate(Client.last)

###This will create a client fixture and traverse all the associations:

LazyFixtures.generate(Client.last, nested: true)

###This will create a client fixture with skipped attributes:

LazyFixtures.generate(Client.last, skip_attr:['age', 'name'])

###This will create a client fixture with custom values:

LazyFixtures.generate(Client.last, change_attr:{'age' => 34, 'name' => 'John'})

##Notes This version is the first version, I want to add more functionality to it, skipping and changing nested attributes from the object, and many more. If you use the gem I see any errors or some functionality that might be useful please let me know. Thanks.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/GustavoCaso/lazy_fixtures/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request