Hello all, I've created a test fixtures replacement named factory_boy<http://github.com/dnerdy/factory_boy>based on thoughtbot's factory_girl for Ruby. Factories are extremely maintainable and can make tests more readable. The framework can be used for any Python project, and Django support is included.
- Have you ever added a field to a model and then realized that you needed to update a bunch of tests because you were creating model instances in your test setUp methods because dealing with fixtures can be really painful? - Have you ever wondered what model values caused a method to return "April 1, 2010", and you couldn't tell from looking at the tests? - Have you ever needed several slight variations of a model to test against and you ended up duplicating the same fixture multiple times (which is now somewhat hard to maintain)? - Have you ever wondered if a certain example setup already exists in your fixtures? factory_boy is here to help alleviate some of these pains. I've found this framework to be very useful and I wanted to share it with everyone. You may find the framework especially useful if you're coming from Ruby/Rails and you're missing that factory love. Interestingly, I'm not really from the Ruby/Rails world... but I do appreciate good tools. You can find documentation for factory_boy on the github page: http://github.com/dnerdy/factory_boy Getting started is as easy as: easy_install factory_boy, or pip install factory_boy ...which installs a package named 'factory'. Enjoy! - Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
