Faking Paperclip has_attached_file with Factory girl?

rubyonrails-talk
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Hello!

I wonder if it's possible to simulate Paperclip's has_attached_file with Factory Girl and then test it with Rspec. I don't get it to work. My factories.rb file looks like this:

Factory.define :user do |user|   user.name "Anders"   user.email "user@example.com"   user.password "foobar"   user.password_confirmation "foobar"   user.avatar_file_name "avatar" end

My Rspec test (users_controller_spec.rb) looks like this:

it "should have a profile image" do   get :show, :id => @user   should have_attached_file(:avatar) end

And I get the following error:

UsersController GET 'show' should have a profile image Failure/Error: @user = Factory(:user) undefined method `avatar_file_name=' for #<User:0x000001037cc550>

I have followed these instructions, http://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm a newbie to Rails so it may be something simple.

Thanks!

// Anders

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I solved it by defining :avatar_file_name in attr_accessor in my user model. Don't know if it's the best solution, comments?