Do you use Factory Girl callbacks? about rails-5.0-rspec-3.5 HOT 4 CLOSED

I sometimes use FactoryGirl callbacks, but I think traits are more useful and important than callbacks, so please include them in the next version.

Or do you think the section is unnecessary?

I think callbacks are important technique too, so they should remain in the book.

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Thanks @ristovskiv @andyw8 @JunichiIto. I'm going to keep callbacks in the book, with stress that they can cause the problems that Andy mentioned. Junichi, yes, I am including traits.

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I think people should be introduced to as much as possible capabilities of Factory Girl (though they have a clear documentation). I don't really know if it will be advertising or not, but you can point to the link for a nice 24 min course . Now I don't know for how long this link will be valid (as with most links), but since it's coming for Upcase which is Thoughtbot's I think it will last.

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I try to avoid using FactoryGirl callbacks, since they can cascade and cause a large number of queries to be run, slowing down the test suite. I'd rather make the setup explicit as part of test.

from rails-5.0-rspec-3.5.