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...39;'t know what class its working on, let alone what fixture names are possible. I''ve tried digging around some in the foxture source file to see exactly how they are implemented, but its not quite clear yet. I''ve been trying to do something (very messy) like: tmp = @@already_loaded_fixtures[self.class][@klass.to_s.downcase.pluralize] tmp is now a double nested array. However it appears to be protected in some manner as tmp[0] returns nil. If I flatten the list, the "protection'' is still present. I can''t access the elements by index. I can''t...

I was trying to deal with foreign key issues related to order of fixture loading when I came across this: http://techpolesen.blogspot.com/2007/04/rails-fixture-tips.html This got me looking deeper into rails and I noticed that db:fixtures:load calls Fixtures.create_fixtures once for each fixture file. However, Fixtures.create_fixtures is capable of taking multiple files and also handle the

OK, so i''ve played a bit with mocks and mock_models in controller and view tests and i have a question. Is this statement really correct: "We highly recommend that you exploit the mock framework here rather than providing real model objects in order to keep the view specs isolated from changes to your models." (http://rspec.rubyforge.org/documentation/rails/writing/views.html