Strange ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch

Question

I am getting a very strange error when running a spec:

Failure/Error: entity = Factory.create(:entity, :name => \"Test Entity\", :creator => user)
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Answer 1

For the combination of Rails + Spring + factory_girl this is fixed since version v4.4.1 of factory_girl_rails (Feb 2014) see https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl_rails/pull/121