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Loading Fixtures in a Migration

Posted in Ruby on Rails at September 28th, 2006 / 5 Comments »

I love migrations. I think they are one of the best things about rails. I love that I can count on any changes I’ve done in the database to be consistent across all other databases that I use. Love it.

Sometimes I find that I want pre-load my database with some data, like categories that I have. For testing purposes, I have already created this data in my fixture; now I just want to load that fixture into my database from a migration call.

I know that there is a rake task for this, so I looked into that code and came up with a little something.

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