Factory Girl: uninitialized constant

Question

I have a factory such as:

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :page do
    title 'Fake Title For Page'
  end
end

And a test:

describe "LandingPages" do
    it "should load the landing page with the correct data" do
        page = FactoryGirl.create(:page)
        visit page_path(page)
    end
end

My spec_helper.rb contains:

require 'factory_girl_rails' 

and yet I keep getting:

LandingPages should load the landing page with the correct data
     Failure/Error: page = FactoryGirl.create(:page)
     NameError:
       uninitialized constant Page
     # ./spec/features/landing_pages_spec.rb:5:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

This is a new project, so I don't believe the test is actually the problem. I believe it could be setup incorrectly. Any ideas on things to try and/or where to look to resolve this?

My uneventful pages.rb file:

class Pages < ActiveRecord::Base
  # attr_accessible :title, :body
end

Answer 1

It looks from your file names like the model is actually named LandingPage. The factory is trying to guess your class name based on the name you have given it. So :page becomes Page.

You can change name of the factory or you can add an explicit class option:

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :landing_page do
    title 'Fake Title For Page'
  end
end

or

FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :page, :class => LandingPage do
    title 'Fake Title For Page'
  end
end

Answer 2

Looks like the name of your model is plural: Pages. This should really be singular: Page. You'll need to rename the file to app/models/page.rb as well. FactoryGirl is assuming a singular model name.