Rails - Apr 2006 - Intergration testing with ordered fixtures

Hi all.

I have a question on accessing fixtures by name.

I''m doing integration testing very similar to what is described in
Jamis''s excellent writeup at
http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2006/03/09/integration-testing-in-rails-1-1.

The problem is that I am using ordered yml fixtures so that rake loads
each element in the correct sequence. I need to do this because my
''has_many'' fixtures (ex. templates) need to know the right
user_id to
attach to.

# --- [ users.yml snippet ] ---
--- !omap
- zack:
   username: zackchandler
   ...

# --- [ templates.yml snippet ] ---
--- !omap
- template1:
   user_id: 1
   name: test
   ...
  	
All fixtures load into the db in the correct order and everything
works great except...

The problem is that now I can''t reference

users(:zack) which should be prepopulated by loading the fixtures in
my test cases.

Has anyone else run into this?  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Zack