# This will guess the User class FactoryGirl.define do sequence :name do |n| "John Doe#{n}" end factory :user do name { FactoryGirl.generate(:name) } end sequence :subject do |n| "Subject#{n}" end factory :conversation, :class => 'conversations/conversation' do subject { FactoryGirl.generate(:subject) } end factory :message, :class => 'conversations/message' do association :user association :conversation body "Test" end factory :user_conversation, :class => 'conversations/user_conversation' do association :user association :conversation end end