Talk:Factory Bot (Rails Testing)

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I have added Category:Ruby (programming language). Please change this if it is wrong. Biscuittin (talk) 21:35, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Rename

Factory Girl was renamed into Factory Bot (source)
It is not only for Rails Testing, it’s generic Ruby library (source) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stansult (talk • contribs) 22:05, 31 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup

I have rewrote some of the article and did the rename. It seems that it is an obscure orphan lingering on the fringes of Wikipedia with much attention to anybody.

factory_bot is a specific software library, not a "philosophy", whatever that was to mean in this instance.
Fixture has a specific, generally understood, meaning in software testing which isn't 100% identical to Rails' fixture concept. It generally means "a fixed, predefined, repeatable setup for a test". Both factory_bot and Rails' fixture mechanism provide that, but in different ways and on a different level.
I removed manual-like stuff and explanations for would-be users, per WP:NOT#GUIDE