Factory_girl/Capybara and Cucumber - ruby

Question

In my Rails projects I normally use factory_girl to build/create users in my app. I want to know if I can use factory_girl when using Cucumber, Capybara to test the user interaction with my app. There is no database to save them to, I am only looking to store their credentials
I can have many users so wanted to create factories for each user (unless there is a better way of doing this with Cucumber).
Within my support folder could I create a factories folder and then a .rb file holding each user.
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :user_1 do
username "username"
password "password"
end
end
Within my env.rb file I am requiring Factory Girl but this is not enough
require 'factory_girl'
As if in my feature I try
Then(/^I will enter my credentials$/) do
fill_in 'username', :with => user_1.email
fill_in 'password', :with => user_2.password
click_button 'login-button'
end
I get
uninitialized constant user_1
I also have a feeling that if this is to work I need a before hook that will build the factory user but I'm unsure on the whole setup at the moment.
Does anyone use factory_girl in this way or, as I mentioned earlier, is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

You should be able to do seething like this
Given(/^I will enter my credentials$/) do
#user = user = FactoryGirl.create(:user)
end
you can read more on this question https://stackoverflow.com/a/16841999/4421094 it was really helpful

Answer 2

Thanks to #MarshallCap for the answer, I had come up with a workable solution and wanted to share, maybe its right or maybe there is a better way but this is what I have ended up doing, if this helps someone else then great.
Firstly I created a class for my factory_users
class Users
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :user_1, :class => :users do |u|
u.skip_create
u.username "username1"
u.password "password"
end
end
FactoryGirl.define do
factory :user_2, :class => :users do |u|
u.skip_create
u.username "username2"
u.password "password2"
end
end
end
require factory_girl in env.rb
require 'factory_girl'
And within my login script within step_definitions assigned an instance variable a hash of the users attributes
Then(/^I will enter my credentials$/) do
#user = FactoryGirl.attributes_for(:user_1)
fill_in 'username', :with => #user[:username]
end