Hello all, I''ve come across several suggestions that indicate that I should use fixtures to load a predefined set of data into my database for testing. My thought was that if I could use such a setup for creating predefined test data, what would stop me from using it to create the initial data that would be loaded when the site goes live? So, I have several tables in the database that have large text fields. How would I go about putting these into YAML when they might possibly contain syntax that would screw up the parsing of the YAML file? Any idea how to do this? Is there a rake task for it (probably)? Should I do it this way? Will --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You''re invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---