[Rails] Loading data with fixtures

[Tim Bates]

Timothy Myrtle wrote:
> Can anyone point me to an easy way to load fixture
> data into the development (not test) database?

I added the following to my Rakefile:

desc "Load fixtures data into the development database"
task :load_fixtures_data_to_development do
   require 'active_record/fixtures'
   ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
       ActiveRecord::Base.configurations["development"])
   Fixtures.create_fixtures("test/fixtures",
       ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[:fixtures_load_order])
end


I've defined configurations[:fixtures_load_order] in my environment.rb 
since this is also used by similar code in my test suite to load the 
fixutures in the correct order, since I have foreign key constraints to 
satisfy.

Tim.

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