Object Mother Support (Fixture Factory)

[fzaninotto]

Object Mother Support (Fixture Factory)

[fzaninotto]

I understand that a Fixture Factory can take great advantage of a fake data generator, but I think porting something like Factory Girl to PHP goes beyond the boundaries of Faker itself.

Maybe another project? Would you like to extract FixtureFactory from xi-doctrine, make it ORM-agnostic, and publish it to GitHub? I'd be willing to help with the Faker integration in that case.

[HelloGrayson]

ok - got a mini project going. will port the good parts of xi-doctrine fixture factory and try to get a little closer to the actual Factory Girl implementation from Ruby. If I make FactoryGirl totally ORM-agnostic do you think we'll be able to make use of the different Faker providers?

https://github.com/breerly/factory-girl-php

[HelloGrayson]

Hey @fzaninotto - is ORM support new? Are you thinking about adding support for sequences? Thx

[fzaninotto]

Hi,

No, it is not new. What exactlyu would you want that Faker handles on sequences? ORMs usually deal with that themselves.

[HelloGrayson]

See FieldDef::sequence here https://github.com/breerly/factory-girl-php#tutorial

[HelloGrayson]

cc @fzaninotto - can you check the link i posted? I think you're not understanding what I mean perhaps.