Whenever VS factory_bot_rails

Learn about Unix cron and use the whenever gem.

there are cronjob gems available, i believe https://github.com/javan/whenever or so seems to be used frequently

- Use them on a specific schedule as needed by your application, such as taking backups, sending periodic reminders or notifications for users, cleaning the database tables, etc. You can use a gem such as Whenever for managing scheduled cron jobs.

whenever gem is used in Rails applications to schedule cron jobs e.g. send email notification about monthly expenditure on the 1st of each month.

Then you can use the whenever gem to schedule stuff.

- [whenever](https://github.com/javan/whenever)

whenever

There are multiple ways to achieve this. Probably the simplest and most reliable is to rely on cron to run your process every minute. Cron keeps track of time and executes your script each minute. This has the added benefit of avoiding a long running process (which can have its own issues). You can even have your script install it’s own cron job using the Whenever gem.

Rake tasks can be called from Cron, so we'll use the Whenever Gem to automatically add our job to our Crontab during deployment, and keep our schedule in change control.

While we’re at it, let's add a couple of other gems we’ll need for our test environment: factory_bot_rails is a fixtures replacement and generates test model instances. faker is handy for generating fake strings of data to be used in tests. Add those gems to the development and test group of your Gemfile:

Factory Bot Rails

rspec-rails factory_bot_rails faker

Hey all, just published a simple gem to mass generate FactoryBot factories for existing projects. Someone had this issue on GitHub (https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_bot_rails/issues/404). I failed to build it in a nice way within the main gem, but wanted to get a solution out there for people who might be in need. I had to get some legacy codebases up to speed in the past, and this would have been useful. Cheers! https://github.com/FanaHOVA/factory_bot_rails_seeder

I use FactoryBot for creating the factory, for stubbing the factory. My factory is containing an image that has to be uploaded and attached as doc every time a factory created:

Here is some real Gherkin from the Factory Bot Rails gem source code on GitHub:

If your are using gems like faker , factory_bot_rails and database_cleaner to create and clean test records then creating unnecessary records can cost you time and speed.