Factory Bot Finder

An extension that allows you to use "Go To Definition" on FactoryBot factory methods.

Features

This extension scans your spec/factories/ directory to find a definition for your factories using tree-sitter.

Extension Settings

No settings for now.

TODO list / Known Issues

• Use a syntax-tree instead of dirty regex.

• More tests cases and complex scenarios.

• Scanning every time ensures that it finds the correct thing but it could have performance issues.

  • Maybe adding an index to save definitions that have already been found?
  • What would happen if a factory is moved? Is there a way to tell the extension to update the factories location?
  • What happens if the factory file is edited and the location inside the file changes?
  • Is it worth adding an index? Would need to do some performance testing in some way.

• Refine when the extension should be activated.

• Fixed: It can confuse factories with similar names (e.g. :user and :user_admin).

• The factory scanning could be refined to look first for a file with the same name as the factory.

• Need to check what the cancellation token is used for.

• Add support for other factory methods.

• Add support for parent: option.

• Add support for test/factories/ directory.

• Add GitHub actions to run the tests.

Testing

I think there's like 3 ways to run the test suite.

npm test
npm run test
npx vscode-test