Factories in Ruby testing are slow because they create cascading associated records, while fixtures load data once and use transactions. FixtureBot is a new gem that combines factory-style syntax with fixture performance by generating YAML fixtures from factory definitions. For parallelism, RSpec lacks built-in support but can

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Factories are slowFixture syntax is tediousHow it worksWhat about RSpec?minitest expectationsWill RSpec ever support parallelism out of the box?The sus gemA modern spec stack

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