Rails - Jan 2006 - Best practice for initializing woriing data for development

I''m getting tired of creating working data in my db just so that I can 
mess it up while working on the code. I''ve been using Ruby code to 
create initial working data, however my data model is getting complex 
enough that it''s becoming a pain to maintain this code. I''ve
been
thinking about using YAML fixtures for this purpose, but there''s no 
obvious support for keeping separate fixtures for development and 
testing.

I know I could construct the initial data by hand and then dump and 
restore it, but that doesn''t seem like the best way to go. I''m
looking
for a solution where I could type something like "rake 
load_working_data" and go from there.

Has anyone come up with a good solution for creating working data for 
development?

thanks,
joshua susser

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