Factory Girl Why does it create two records for every one requested? - factory-bot

Question

Using:
factory_girl-2.6.4
cucumber-1.2.1
ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [x86_64-linux]
Rails 3.0.15
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :user do
email {Factory.next(:email)}
password 'test123'
end
factory :participant do
factory :person do
sequence(:name) {|n| Faker::Name.last_name + " #{n}" }
sequence(:other_names) { |n| Faker::Name.first_name }
type Participant::PERSON_TYPE
end
factory :organisation do
sequence(:name) {|n| Faker::Company.name + " #{n} Pty Ltd" }
type Participant::ORGANISATION_TYPE
sequence(:abn) {|n| "56 122 456 78#{n}" }
end
end
factory :client do
association :participant, :factory=>:organisation #, :name=> Faker::Name.name + ' Client'
role_type { RoleType.where(:id => RoleType::CLIENT_ID).first }
type Role::CLIENT_TYPE
sequence(:email) {|n| Faker::Internet::user_name + ".client#{n}#mailinator.com" }
std_account { Faker::PhoneNumber.phone_number[0,20] }
commenced_on { rand(60).days.ago }
end
In Cucumber
Feature: test the construction of a factories
Background: Because factories also need to be tested
Given a client exists # factory_girl-2.6.4/lib/factory_girl/step_definitions.rb:107
And Show Roles # features/step_definitions/sign_in.rb:19
This produces 2 organisation (which is a participant) & 2 clients as follows:
"-------- Roles & Organisations -------"
[#<Client id: 2, participant_id: 2, user_id: nil, role_type_id: 5, type: "Client", std_account: "[phone]", email: "amani.aufderhar.client1#mailinator.com", url: nil, phone: nil, mobile: nil, fax: nil, commenced_on: "2012-05-14", expired_on: nil, created_at: "2012-06-23 03:27:43", updated_at: "2012-06-23 03:27:43", lock_version: 0>,
#<Client id: 3, participant_id: 3, user_id: nil, role_type_id: 5, type: "Client", std_account: "301.424.0762 x123", email: "brennan.client2#mailinator.com", url: nil, phone: nil, mobile: nil, fax: nil, commenced_on: "2012-05-28", expired_on: nil, created_at: "2012-06-23 03:27:43", updated_at: "2012-06-23 03:27:43", lock_version: 0>]
[#<Organisation id: 2, name: "Lowe, Lesch and Swift 1 Pty Ltd", type: "Organisation", other_names: nil, preferred_name: nil, salutation_id: nil, abn: "56 122 456 781", expired_on: nil, created_at: "2012-06-23 03:27:42", updated_at: "2012-06-23 03:27:42", lock_version: 0>,
#<Organisation id: 3, name: "Deckow, Strosin and Schiller 2 Pty Ltd", type: "Organisation", other_names: nil, preferred_name: nil, salutation_id: nil, abn: "56 122 456 782", expired_on: nil, created_at: "2012-06-23 03:27:43", updated_at: "2012-06-23 03:27:43", lock_version: 0>]
Can any shed some light on this for me please - there should be exactly one of each as I understand it.
Ross

Answer 1

Updated factory_girl to latest version.Problem went away.