I find fixtures a bit tedious to use in Ruby on Rails, partly because I need to manually correct them after most migrations.
Is there a way (a plugin?) I can have my fixtures modified when I run my migrations?
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I find fixtures a bit tedious to use in Ruby on Rails, partly because I need to manually correct them after most migrations.
Is there a way (a plugin?) I can have my fixtures modified when I run my migrations?
Adding to womble’s answer above, you can generate fixtures from your dev database using topfunky’s ar_fixures plugin:
http://github.com/topfunky/ar_fixtures/tree/master
In my opinion, there’s still a valid place for a small, well managed set of fixtures in rails – as there is for mock objects… but we’ll leave that for another day!
Also worth considering the fixture-sets-for-rails plugin, though I haven’t used it myself: http://thatswhatimtalkingabout.org/news/2006/8/31/fixture-sets-for-rails Seems like a reasonable idea, although I’d be very wary of building a mass of confusing sets of fixtures – each of which you may have to fix when your domain model changes. I’d probably stick to mocks instead (this plugin looks quite old and was probably written before a mocha turned up).