ActiveRecord/Mongoid encourages using of callback which leads to lot of issue when testing. Let’s be honest, we’re all been there.

It’s really ugly but what I come to use is a combination of FactoryGirl callback.

I will first disable Mongoid callback, then manually trigger only callback that I want with FactoryGirl

    after(:build) do
      Model.skip_callback(:create, :after, :cb1)
      Model.skip_callback(:create, :after, :cb2)
    end

    after(:create) do |r|
      r.cb1 # manually call cb1
    end

Using in combination with FactoryGirl Inheritance, we can make it a bit nicer

factory :with_call_back do
  # attbs

  after(:save) do |m|
    m.callback
  end

  factory :with_out_cb do
    after(:build) do
      Model.skip_callback(:create, :after, :cb1)
    end
  end

end