Why would you want to do *either*? If you want your fixtures to have
different data, just change them.

In any case, the second way is preferable; I'm not 100% sure that the
first way won't re-instantiate the fixture and zorch your changes.

--Matt Jones

On Oct 11, 5:15 am, Joshua Muheim <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi all
>
> When creating unit tests, I wondered whether I should rather use the
> following...
>
> people(:sam).name = "Sammy"
> people(:sam).city = "Blah"
>
> ...or rather the following form:
>
> @sam = people(:sam)
> @sam.name = "Sammy"
> @sam.city = "Blah"
>
> Thanks
> Josh
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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