ruby on rails - Faker is producing duplicate data when used in factory_girl

Question

I'm trying to populate some fake data into a factory using the Faker gem:

Factory.define :user do |user|
  user.first_name Faker::Name::first_name
  user.last_name Faker::Name::last_name
  user.sequence(:email) {|n| "user#{n}@blow.com" }
end

However while I expect this to produce users who have different first_name and last_names, each one is the same:

>> Factory(:user)
=> #<User id: 16, email: "[email protected]", created_at: "2011-03-18 18:29:33",     
updated_at: "2011-03-18 18:29:33", first_name: "Bailey", last_name: "Durgan">
>> Factory(:user)
=> #<User id: 17, email: "[email protected]", created_at: "2011-03-18 18:29:39", 
updated_at: "2011-03-18 18:29:39", first_name: "Bailey", last_name: "Durgan">

How can I get the Faker gem to generate new names for each users and not just reuse the original ones?

Answer 1

Factory.define :user do |user|
  user.first_name { Faker::Name::first_name }
  user.last_name { Faker::Name::last_name }
  user.sequence(:email) {|n| "user#{n}@blow.com" }
end

Try putting brackets around the fakers. see this link