Hi, I''m a Ruby and Rails newbie working my way through the book and my first app in parallel. In the book, (page 116) to be exact, some SQL code is written to populate the development database with some sample product data. I was surprised that a fixture wasn''t used to do this. Additionally, in my app, I''ve got a bunch of data about game pieces stored in a table so it can be queried in a variety of way. The data cannot be modified by the user, but it can evolve as part of the development process between releases. I was thinking that a fixture would be a good way to manage and version this static information, but I couldn''t find any references to loading fixtures outside into the development or production environment. Is there a reason fixtures are limited to the testing environment? It shouldn''t be too difficult to add this to the rakefile would it? Thanks, Steve