Factory(:user) hits database?

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Published on 2010-06-01T01:08:24Z Indexed on 2010/06/01 1:13 UTC
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Playing around with factories, which I read weren't supposed to hit the database, allowing you to avoid having your controller specs interacting with the DB. But when I fire up the Rails console in test and use a factory to create a sample user, I noticed an actual user gets created in the database. Huh? (Using Rails 2.3.8 and Factory Girl 1.2.3.)

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