Spawner

Spawner is a simple fixtures replacement. In the examples I use Faker to generate random data, but you can use any method.

Usage

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  spawner do |user|
    user.name = Faker::Name.name
    user.email = Faker::Internet.email
  end
end

Then, in your test or in any other place:

@user = User.spawn

Or, if you need something special:

@user = User.spawn do |user|
  user.name = "Michel Martens"
end

Or even this:

@user = User.spawn :name => "Michel Martens"

You can install it as a Rails plugin or as a gem:

$ gem sources -a http://gems.github.com (you only have to do this once)
$ sudo gem install soveran-spawner

Thanks to Foca (github.com/foca/) for his suggestions and Pedro (github.com/peterpunk/) for the gemspec.