Model Bakery: Smart fixtures for better tests

Model Bakery offers you a smart way to create fixtures for testing in Django.

With a simple and powerful API you can create many objects with a single line of code.

Model Bakery is a rename of the legacy model_mommy’s project.

Contributing to Model Bakery

As an open source project, Model Bakery welcomes contributions of many forms. Examples of contributions include:

• Code Patches
• Documentation improvements
• Bug reports

Compatibility

model_bakery supports Django >= 1.11 and Python >= 3.5

Install

Install it with pip

$ pip install model_bakery

Contributing

1. Prepare a virtual environment.

$ pip install virtualenvwrapper
$ mkvirtualenv model_bakery

2. Install the requirements.

$ pip install -r dev_requirements.txt

3. Run the tests.

$ make test

Doubts? Loved it? Hated it? Suggestions?

Feel free to open an issue for support, development or ideas!

• https://github.com/model-bakers/model_bakery

Contents:

• Basic Usage
  • Model Relationships
  • M2M Relationships
  • Explicit M2M Relationships
  • Explicit values for fields
  • Creating Files
  • Non persistent objects
  • More than one instance
• Recipes
  • Recipes with foreign keys
  • Recipes with callables
  • Recipes with iterators
  • Sequences in recipes
  • Overriding recipe definitions
  • Recipe inheritance
• How Model Bakery behaves?
  • When shouldn’t you let Baker generate things for you?
  • Currently supported fields
  • Custom fields
  • Customizing Baker
  • Save method custom parameters
• Migrating from Model Mommy