Post by Peter Cooper on August 10th, 2007
Fixing Rails’ Fixtures
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In "Fixin' Fixtures" Chris Wanstrath looks at how to make working with fixtures in a Rails testing environment a lot less painful. His opening paragraph says it best:
The main problem with fixtures, for me, has always been how unfun they are. They literally suck the fun out of anything they’re around. You throw them in your test/ directory, then suddenly testing is, like, work. But it’s not work, dammit. This is Ruby, dammit.
So, keep them fun. Write your fixtures in Ruby.
Enjoy!
August 12th, 2007 at 5:44 am
In the spirit of "fixin' fixtures", here is a solution of using a factory instead of fixtures: http://www.dcmanges.com/blog/38