Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> 
> You really don't want to copy the whole production DB for every run. 
> You might want to take a snapshot of it and use it as a set of 
> production data.

True - that would be my intention. Probably every month take a new 
snapshot, something along those lines.

> Note also that that is the only use case in which I would *ever* 
> recommend touching Rails' fixtures.  For routine testing such as you've 
> been doing, you will be a lot happier if you replace your fixtures with 
> factories.
> 

I'll have a look into factories and see if they'll meet my needs.

Thanks for that Marnen!

> 
> Best,
> --
> Marnen Laibow-Koser
> http://www.marnen.org
> [email protected]

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