# RAILS: problems loading fixtures

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-problems-loading-fixtures/106826>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 14, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-problems-loading-fixtures/106826 "2007-06-14T13:31:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![mark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@mark](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mark)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-problems-loading-fixtures/106826/1 "2007-06-14T13:31:14Z")

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Hi,

I’m having a bizarre problem getting my fixtures to load when running my  
tests using  
rake test, I get errors along the lines of

‘Error: Table ‘test.products’ doesn’t exist:…’

this , despite the fact that the fixtures products.yml exists in my  
fixtures  
directory.

Originally my tests were running clean, with no errors, then I dropped  
and  
repopulated  
my development database. Then I started to get the above error.

Has anyone else had this experience?

Mark