How do I use factories from FactoryBot in rails console

Question

I am using rails console in the development environment and I want to use factories. How can I get access to them?

I have tried require "FactoryBot" which returns

1.9.3p393 :301 > require "FactoryBot"
LoadError: cannot load such file -- FactoryBot

Answer 1

To solve this problem ensure that the factory bot gem is specifed in your Gemfile similar to this

group :development, :test do
  gem 'factory_bot_rails'
end

Then bundle install.

This should make FactoryBot class available in the development console.

Hope this helps.