FactoryGirl gives wrong value on enum status field - factory-bot

Question

I am trying to build a FactoryGirl factory for the Client.rb model:
Client.rb
enum status: [ :unregistered, :registered ]
has_many :quotation_requests
#Validations
validates :first_name,
presence: true,
length: {minimum: 2}
validates :last_name,
presence: true,
length: {minimum: 2}
validates :email, email: true
validates :status, presence: true
Factory:
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :client do
first_name "Peter"
last_name "Johnson"
sequence(:email) { |n| "peterjohnson#{n}#example.com" }
password "somepassword"
status "unregistered"
end
end
client_spec.rb
require 'rails_helper'
RSpec.describe Client, type: :model do
describe 'factory' do
it "has a valid factory" do
expect(FactoryGirl.build(:client).to be_valid
end
end
end
I get the following errorL
1) Client factory has a valid factory
Failure/Error: expect(FactoryGirl.build(:client, status: 'unregistered')).to be_valid
expected #<Client id: nil, email: "peterjohnson1#example.com", encrypted_password: "$2a$04$urndfdXNfKVqYB5t3kERZ.c.DUitIVXEZ6f19FNYZ2C...", first_name: "Peter", last_name: "Johnson", status: "0", reset_password_token: nil, reset_password_sent_at: nil, remember_created_at: nil, sign_in_count: 0, current_sign_in_at: nil, last_sign_in_at: nil, current_sign_in_ip: nil, last_sign_in_ip: nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil> to be valid, but got errors: Status can't be blank
The error is that Status can't be blank.
I don't understand how this is possible as the factory is clearly assigning a value to the status attribute.
How can I get this factory to build a valid client object?
Rails 4.2
Using factory_girl 4.7.0
Using factory_girl_rails 4.7.0

Answer 1

This error was caused by the data type I used for the status attribute. I chose string instead of integer.
I solved the problem by running a new migration to change the data type of the status to integer.
class ChangeColumnTypeClientStatus < ActiveRecord::Migration
def change
change_column :clients, :status, :integer, default: 0
end
end
Now it works perfectly.

Answer 2

I think that you forgot the
let(:client) { FactoryGirl.create(:client) }
on your client_spec.rb
Where're you creating the client object?
Other issue may be that you assign on Factory:
status "unregistered"
instead of:
status :unregistered
as a symbol or due to is an enum maybe you should make
status 0 # :unregistered