FactoryGirl::InvalidFactoryError: Validation failed: <Class> must exist (ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid)

Question

I have these two models

class User < ApplicationRecord
  devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable,
         :recoverable, :rememberable, :trackable, :validatable

  has_many :posts
end

class Post < ApplicationRecord
  belongs_to :user
end

These are my factories

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :user do
    id 1
    first_name 'John'
    last_name 'Doe'
    sequence(:email) { |n| "tester#{n}@example.com" }
    password 'secretpassword'
  end
end

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :post do
    user_id 1
    title 'This is a title'
    body 'This is a body'
    published_at Time.now
  end
end

When I run the following tests I get the following error:

RSpec.describe User, type: :model do
  let(:user) { build(:user) }
  it { expect(user).to have_many(:posts) }
end

RSpec.describe Post, type: :model do
  let(:post) { build(:post) }
  it { expect(post).to belong_to(:user) }
end

# Error I get:
FactoryGirl::InvalidFactoryError:
  The following factories are invalid:

  * post - Validation failed: User must exist (ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid)

How can I fix this?

This is also my db schema

  create_table "posts", force: :cascade, options: "ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8" do |t|
    t.integer  "user_id"
    t.string   "title"
    t.text     "body",         limit: 65535
    t.datetime "published_at"
    t.datetime "created_at",                 null: false
    t.datetime "updated_at",                 null: false
    t.index ["user_id"], name: "index_posts_on_user_id", using: :btree
  end

create_table "users", force: :cascade, options: "ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8" do |t|
  # Whatever devise generates
end

ltdev ltdev · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-21T20:32:07

I found the solution eventually. The key was missing was the association :user

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :post do
    title 'This is a title'
    body 'This is a body'
    published_at Time.now
    association :user
  end
end

FactoryGirl::InvalidFactoryError: Validation failed: <Class> must exist (ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid)

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