ex_machina VS factory_girl_elixir

Compare ex_machina vs factory_girl_elixir and see what are their differences.

ex_machina

Create test data for Elixir applications (by beam-community)

factory_girl_elixir

Minimal implementation of Ruby's factory_girl in Elixir. (by sinetris)
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ex_machina factory_girl_elixir
2 -
1,871 43
0.3% -
6.8 0.0
3 months ago almost 9 years ago
Elixir Elixir
MIT License MIT License
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ex_machina

Posts with mentions or reviews of ex_machina. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-02.
  • Test Data Libraries for Elixir
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 May 2023
    The factory library ExMachina created by Thoughbot uses function names and generates an atom used to call factories. For example:
  • How to write test cases for databse related functions
    3 projects | /r/elixir | 5 Nov 2021
    The well known FactoryBot (FactoryGirl) from rails has a pretty good equivalent in Phoenix as ExMachina (https://github.com/thoughtbot/ex_machina) and does the job really well (thoughtbot is a pretty good and stable contributor too, so a nice Omakase plug-in!)

factory_girl_elixir

Posts with mentions or reviews of factory_girl_elixir. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning factory_girl_elixir yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ex_machina and factory_girl_elixir you can also consider the following projects:

faker - Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.

bypass - Bypass provides a quick way to create a custom plug that can be put in place instead of an actual HTTP server to return prebaked responses to client requests.

blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir

test_that_json - JSON-related helpers for your Elixir testing needs

FakerElixir - [unmaintained] FakerElixir generates fake data for you.

amrita - A polite, well mannered and thoroughly upstanding testing framework for Elixir

espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development

excheck - Property-based testing library for Elixir (QuickCheck style).

espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.

ecto_it - Ecto plugin with default configuration for repos for testing different ecto plugins with databases

mox - Mocks and explicit contracts in Elixir

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