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Yeah, the easiest way is to generate attributes and instantiate any Rails model like the one below:

    Pbt.assert do
      Pbt.property(name: Pbt.printable_string, age: Pbt.integer(min: 0, max: 100)) do |name:, age:|
        user = User.new(name: name, age: age)
        # write your test here
      end
    end

I think there are usually three actions a programmer can take when PBT fails.

- Create a test case that doesn't depend on PBT as you suggest.

- Fix the production code being tested since its failure is an unexpected bug.

- Fix the PBT itself. This means that the programmer has had wrong assumption for the test target.

I think it's difficult for the tool to know which choice is the best on a failure. But if there's any good idea, I'd like to incorporate it. :)

yes, because you're changing the order in which the random draws are interpreted. But this isn't a problem in practice because you generally aren't changing the generator in the middle of debugging a failure.

Correct. The test inputs are determined by a seed and generators (including the order of generators).