factory girl + cucumber simple test (from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8397420/factory-girl-rails-cucumberundefined/8398156#8398156)

env.rb

# can be found in features/support/env.rb
require 'pp'
require 'features/support/user'
require 'factory_girl_rails'

factories.rb

# can be found in features/support/factories.rb
FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :user do
    name 'Adam Advertiser'
    email 'a@b.com'
  end   
end
pp FactoryGirl.create(:user)
require 'factory_girl/step_definitions'

interactive shell

 $ rbenv exec cucumber          
"Adam Advertiser"
"a@b.com"
#<User:0x101967808 @email="a@b.com", @name="Adam Advertiser">
Feature: a

  Scenario: test factory-girl        # features/user.feature:2
"Brandon"
"brandon@example.com"
    Given the following user exists: # factory_girl-2.3.2/lib/factory_girl/step_definitions.rb:100
      | name    | email               |
      | Brandon | brandon@example.com |

1 scenario (1 passed)
1 step (1 passed)
0m0.004s

user.feature

# can be found in features/user.feature
Feature: a
  Scenario: test factory-girl
    Given the following user exists:
    | name    | email               |
    | Brandon | brandon@example.com |

user.rb

# can be found in features/support/user.rb
class User
  attr_accessor :name, :email
  def save!
    pp @name
    pp @email
  end
end