You can get an idea about fixtures here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#the-low-down-on-fixtures
<http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#the-low-down-on-fixtures>And the guides are a great resource to understand the basics about Rails. Factory Girl and Machinist serve the same purpose but in my opinion it's easier to generate data for your tests using them. Check their pages to see more: https://github.com/notahat/machinist and https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl_rails -- Carlos Galdino codecleaning.com On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:47, Gaba Luschi <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks - what exactly are fixtures? And do Factory Girl and Machinist > serve the same purpose? > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
