Decided to not use FactoryBot in prod afterall

Gemfile

@@ -40,12 +40,11 @@ gem 'interactor-rails'
 
 gem 'active_model_serializers'
 
-gem 'factory_bot_rails'
-
 group :development, :test do
   # Call 'byebug' anywhere in the code to stop execution and get a debugger console
   gem 'byebug', platforms: %i[mri mingw x64_mingw]
   gem 'coveralls', require: false
+  gem 'factory_bot_rails'
   gem 'faker'
   gem 'rspec-rails'
   gem 'shoulda-matchers'

app/services/group_stage_service.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
-require 'factory_bot'
-FactoryBot.definition_file_paths = %w(../../spec/factories)
 
 class GroupStageService
   def self.generate_group_stage(groups)
@@ -10,11 +8,11 @@ class GroupStageService
     raise 'Groups need to be equal size' unless (groups.flatten.length.to_f / groups.length.to_f % 1).zero?
 
     groups = groups.map(&method(:get_group_object_from))
-    FactoryBot.create(:group_stage, groups: groups)
+    Stage.new level: -1, groups: groups
   end
 
   def self.get_group_object_from(team_array)
-    FactoryBot.create(:group, matches: generate_all_matches_between(team_array))
+    Group.new matches: generate_all_matches_between(team_array)
   end
 
   def self.generate_all_matches_between(teams)

spec/factories/groups.rb

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 FactoryBot.define do
   factory :group do
     transient do
-      matches { nil }
       match_count { 4 }
     end
 
@@ -11,11 +10,7 @@ FactoryBot.define do
     stage
 
     after(:create) do |group, evaluator|
-      if evaluator.matches.nil?
+      create_list(:group_match, evaluator.match_count, group: group)
-        create_list(:group_match, evaluator.match_count, group: group)
-      else
-        evaluator.matches
-      end
     end
   end
 end

spec/factories/stages.rb

@@ -6,15 +6,10 @@ FactoryBot.define do
     factory :group_stage do
       level { -1 }
       transient do
-        groups { nil }
         group_count { 4 }
       end
       after(:create) do |stage, evaluator|
-        stage.groups = if evaluator.groups.nil?
+        stage.groups = create_list(:group, evaluator.group_count)
-                         create_list(:group, evaluator.group_count)
-                       else
-                         evaluator.groups
-                       end
       end
     end