Hi,
Is there a quick and dirty way to use fixtures inside of migrations?
I’d like to be able to blow away my db and recreate it, with some
predefined values. I know i can use a db export/import, but it looks
like fixtures would be a good fit here. I tried doing this to my
migrations:
added:
require File.dirname(FILE) + ‘/…/test_helper’
class AddANewTable < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
…
fixtures :articles
end
…
but it doesn’t seem to be performing correctly. Is anyone usign this
approach? Is there a best way to do it?
Thanks,
Ben
Without db tables defined how would you identify sql column types from a
fixture file?
-Peter
Hey Ben,
Haven’t toyed with it much, but I seen a rake task for this:
[root@inimit rails]# rake -T
…
rake load_fixtures # Load fixtures into the current
environment’s database
…
HTH.
Warmest regards,
Nathan.
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Thanks Nathan - yeah that is what I was looking for. Seems to be
working great.
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On Nov 19, 2005, at 2:05 PM, Peter M. wrote:
Without db tables defined how would you identify sql column types
from a fixture file?
Types are inferred since they are (mostly) unambiguous. Databases’
treatment of boolean is a sore spot, however: true/false, ‘t’/‘f’,
1/0, etc etc.
jeremy
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