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Hello! I experienced problems with testing transactions which are supposed to be rolled back, but are not, because of transactional fixtures eliminating the inner transaction. Can this be worked around somehow without turning off transactional fixtures? Maybe savepoints can help this? Does anyone have any experience with savepoints to achieve nested transaction functionality? Both Postgres

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