Anthony Crumley wrote: > Grar, > > My recommendation would be to not pre-populate with a migration. I > would > create a ruby script for that and have developers run that script to get > setup. Then I would run that script in the test/test_helper.rb setup or > where ever is appropriate if I wanted that data available in my tests. >
Yes. In fact, Rails 2.3 has seeding built in, and for older versions, there's seed-fu. Seed data does not belong in migrations. > A more conventional approach would be to create fixtures with the test > data. Then you can load those fixtures into your development database > with > "rake db:fixtures:load". No. Fixtures are a broken feature of Rails and should be avoided at all costs. Use factories instead. > > Anthony Crumley > http://commonthread.com Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
