Factory-girl create that bypasses my model validation

Question

I am using Factory Girl to create two instances in my model/unit test for a Group. I am testing the model to check that a call to .current returns only the \'current\' groups ac

Answer 1

Your factories should create valid objects by default. I found that transient attributes can be used to add conditional logic like this:

transient do
  skip_validations false
end

before :create do |instance, evaluator|
  instance.save(validate: false) if evaluator.skip_validations
end

In your test:

create(:group, skip_validations: true)