ex_machina VS PaperClip

Compare ex_machina vs PaperClip and see what are their differences.

ex_machina

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

PaperClip

Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord (by thoughtbot)
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ex_machina PaperClip
2 9
1,872 9,061
0.2% -
6.8 0.0
4 months ago 10 months ago
Elixir Ruby
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!)

PaperClip

Posts with mentions or reviews of PaperClip. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-02.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

CarrierWave - Classier solution for file uploads for Rails, Sinatra and other Ruby web frameworks

factory_girl_elixir - Minimal implementation of Ruby's factory_girl in Elixir.

Shrine - File Attachment toolkit for Ruby applications

blacksmith - Data generation framework for Elixir

kt-paperclip - Easy file attachment management for ActiveRecord

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

DragonFly - A Ruby gem for on-the-fly processing - suitable for image uploading in Rails, Sinatra and much more!

espec - Elixir Behaviour Driven Development

Refile - Ruby file uploads, take 3

espec_phoenix - ESpec for Phoenix web framework.

rack-secure-upload - Upload files securely