How to set up Factory Girl related configuration to be used by both RSpec and cucumber in Rails 3.2

Question

How do I set up Factory Girl related configuration to be used by both RSpec and cucumber in Rails 3.2?

The configuration is something like

FactoryGirl.aliases = [
  [/([^(?:address)].+)_id/, '\1'],
  [/([^(?:address)].*)/, '\1_id'],
]

I tried putting it in spec/support/factory_girl.rb , and that worked fine if I'm running RSpec tests, but it doesn't get run if I'm running cucumber tests instead.

I'm considering putting it in config/environments/test.rb but it's not configuring Rails itself.

Answer 1

Cucumber's setup isn't very well documented, but it loads a features/support/env.rb file first and then all other Ruby files in features/support . So you could add a require statement in features/support/env.rb to load spec/support/factory_girl.rb , or have a similar initialiser in features/support . And, given that it's shared code that sets up the test environment, I don't think it would be terrible to put it in config/environments/test.rb either.