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I have a Family class so defined: class Family < ActiveRecord::Base after_initialize :initialize_family belongs_to :user validates :user, :presence => true validates :name, :presence => true, :length => { :maximum => 30 }, :format => { :with => /\A[a-zA-Z0-9\-_\s\']+\z/i} def initialize_family if self.name.blank? && self.user self.name = "#{self.user.profile_full_name}'s Family" end end end In my factories.rb I have: Factory.define :family do |f| f.association :user, :factory => :user end In my family_spec.rb I have let(:family) { Factory(:family) } But this fails with: 1) Family is valid with valid attributes Failure/Error: let(:family) { Factory(:family) } ActiveRecord::RecordInvalid: Validation failed: Name can't be blank, Name is invalid, Languages can't be blank, Languages is too short (minimum is 1 characters) # ./spec/models/family_spec.rb:8:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>' # ./spec/models/family_spec.rb:10:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>' Using the debugger I can see that when after_initialize is called self.user is nil. Why is this happening? If I call the family with create or new everything works fine. Thanks for any help.

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