Live to Code

If you are starting a new Rails project and you want to use RSpec and FactoryGirl instead of Test::Unit and Fixtures, it's easy to get Rails to recognize this and generate the correct files for you.

1. Create a new rails app without the test directory (or if the app already exists, just delete the test directory)

   $ rails new myproject -T
   

2. Add the gems to the :development and :test groups in your Gemfile

   group :test, :development do
     gem 'rspec-rails'
     gem 'factory_girl_rails'
   end
   

That's it! Now when you generate your models and controllers using $ rails g model my_model you will also get the spec and factory created for free.