# Fixtures.create\_fixtures with any desired filenames?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fixtures-create-fixtures-with-any-desired-filenames/90895>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 2, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fixtures-create-fixtures-with-any-desired-filenames/90895 "2007-04-02T20:14:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@josh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/josh)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fixtures-create-fixtures-with-any-desired-filenames/90895/1 "2007-04-02T20:14:05Z")

</div>

Hi all

I’d like to create fixtures using

Fixtures.create\_fixtures

But it seems that this one needs .yml files that have the same name like  
the table they correspond to:

countries.yml =\> my\_db.countries  
readers.yml =\> my\_db.readers

Is it possible to use any desired filenames somehow?

some\_cool\_countries.yml =\> my\_db.countries  
some\_other\_cool\_countries.yml =\> my\_db.countries

Thanks for any help,  
Josh