# Tired of Rails Fixtures? Try Dataset

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tired-of-rails-fixtures-try-dataset/155471>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 12, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tired-of-rails-fixtures-try-dataset/155471 "2008-12-12T06:07:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 6:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/tired-of-rails-fixtures-try-dataset/155471/1 "2008-12-12T06:07:38Z")

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Dataset gives you an easy, declarative method for constructing sets of  
data to be used in testing. It is a data loading framework. This is in  
contrast to Machinist and Factory Girl which focus only on making it  
easy to create new models for testing, but have no solution for  
loading sets of data.

Read more:  
[http://wiseheartdesign.com/2008/12/12/h1-meet-dataset-the-fixture-killing-data-loading-framework](http://wiseheartdesign.com/2008/12/12/h1-meet-dataset-the-fixture-killing-data-loading-framework)

–  
John L.  
[http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com)