daze wrote in post #966672: > What is the preferred way to have testing data - fixtures, or > something like factory_girl (https://github.com/thoughtbot/ > factory_girl)?
Factories. Never use fixtures, ever, for anything. > > I definitely need something that can handle relationships between > things - for example, an article belongs to a section / a section has > many articles. If you had checked the documentation for Factory Girl and Machinist, you would know that they can do this. > > Also, how do people generally load seed data? I know about rake > db:seed...but do people generally load something (like fixtures) in > the seeds.rb file instead of typing out all this stuff in there? > There must be a clean way to handle all of this! There is. The seeds.rb file or the seed_fu plugin. > > I think I'm going to try factory_girl if no one has major objections... Yes, do try that or Machinist. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
