Is there a good alternative to factory_girl?

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It doesn't really seem like factory_girl receives much attention these days. Is there a better alternative? I really like FG, but I need to know that they'll keep working on it.

Particularly the slow pace of factory_girl_rails is annoying.

What do you need from factory_girl that it doesn't already provide? — grifaton, May 23 '11 at 21:15
I don't know if by "slow pace" OP was referring to how long it takes to load FG compared to fixtures. That's certainly something I find annoying, though. I can't just run rake:tasks and get a 2 second result, so I have to be more careful about making small changes and testing them. — Eric Hu, May 23 '11 at 22:12

Evan Walsh · Answer 1 · 2011-05-24T01:27:24.553

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I personally prefer Fabrication, but that's because it supports a few different ORMs and I use Mongoid. Also, it's been pretty fast in the tests I run.

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answered May 23 '11 at 22:54

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 07 '13 at 21:30

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I like: https://github.com/ginty/cranky

Much simpler so it never breaks, doesn't need a -rails gem and works with any ORM.

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score 3 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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I know Machinist but according to this post, it doesn't really differ from Factory Girl.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:00

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answered May 23 '11 at 21:13

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Is there a good alternative to factory_girl?

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