What is the purpose of a `transient do` block in FactoryBot factories?

Question

What is the purpose of transient do in FactoryBot factories?

I\'ve seen a lot of factories that begin with something like below.

factory :c         


        

Answer 1

transient attributes allow you to pass in data that isn’t an attribute on the model.

Say you have a model called car with the following attributes:

• name
• purchase_price
• model

You want to capitalize the name of the car when you create the car model in the factory. What we can do is:

factory :car do
  transient do
    # capitalize is not an attribute of the car
    capitalize  false
  end

  name           { "Jacky" }
  purchase_price { 1000 }
  model          { "Honda" }

  after(:create) do |car, evaluator|
    car.name.upcase! if evaluator.capitalize
  end
end

Hence, whenever you create the car factory and you want to capitalize the name. You can do

car = FactoryGirl.create(:car, capitalize: true)
car.name
# => "JACKY"

Hope it helps.