Using factory_girl definitions in console

In my Gemfile, I am using factory_girl like so:

gem 'factory_girl_rails', :require => false

This makes your development environment load a little faster, but also means that you don’t have access to your factories in your development console.

No worries, loading factories is actually pretty simple. In your console do this:

require 'factory_girl'
FactoryGirl.find_definitions

Just create/build factories as you normally would.