CAUTION It's specific machinist 1.0-maintenance.

Machinist is an alternative for Fixtures or FactoryGirl.

make_unsaved

If you want to generate an object without saving it to the database, replace make with make_unsaved

reference

So remember to use make_unsaved.

More

If you're interested, here is the source code.

• https://github.com/notahat/machinist/blob/1.0-maintenance/lib/machinist/active_record.rb#L61
• https://github.com/notahat/machinist/blob/1.0-maintenance/lib/machinist.rb#L107

Under latest version

Well if you're using latest machinist, which is 2.0 at this point, it's much simpler and cleaner.

make for generating but not saving an object, make! for saving it to database.