Using factory_girl in rake task - getting uninitialized constant

Question

I am trying to use Factory Girl in a situation like this:

require 'factory_girl'
require File.expand_path("spec/factories.rb")

namespace :users do

  desc "Create sample users for use in development" 
  task :create_sample_users => :environment do
    Factory(:user, :email => "[e-mail]")
    Factory(:approved_user, :email => "[e-mail]") 
  end

end

However, when I start rake users:create_sample_users, I get an error message uninitialized constant Entry(Entry is the name of one of my application classes).

Can someone tell me how to get a Factory girl to see my classes? It works great in my tests, it just does not cope with my rake tasks.

Answer 1

I assume that Rails did not load your models at a time when you need factories. Try the following:

require 'factory_girl'

namespace :users do

  desc "Create sample users for use in development" 
  task :create_sample_users => :environment do
    require File.expand_path("spec/factories.rb")
    Factory(:user, :email => "[e-mail]")
    Factory(:approved_user, :email => "[e-mail]") 
  end

end

Answer 2

@dmcnally , , . , :

sh "rails runner 'FactoryGirl.create :user'"

Answer 3

For factory_botwhich replaced factory_girl, use:

require 'factory_bot'

namespace :users do

  desc "Create sample users for use in development" 
  task :create_sample_users => :environment do
    include FactoryBot::Syntax::Methods

    create(:user, :email => "[e-mail]")
  end
end