Rails - Jul 2006 - Loading different fixtures?

I''m starting to write some rather intricate billing logic, the test
data
for which will almost certainly overwhelm my standard set of test 
fixtures, leading to a test maintenance nightmare.  I''d like to be able
to specify that some test classes load their fixtures from a different 
location, but I can''t seem to get it to work.

I did see this post from last December:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/48958#12561

However, installing the engines plugin as mentioned there didn''t get me
the expected behavior (perhaps it was taken back out again?). 
Similarly, the patch from ticket 1911 is against 0.13.1; I''d be 
surprised if it worked on 1.1...

I''ve also tried the following:

  class RolldownTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
    self.fixture_path = 
"#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/../fixtures/rolldown/"
    fixtures  :authorizations, :timecards #, etc
    #...
  end

This works when I just run the test as a standalone, but it utterly 
hoses all other tests when I run rake.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
-Sam

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