Load and use fixture in rails console

Question

I wonder if there\'s a way to load and/or use fixture in rails console. Actually, I\'d like to create a user from my fixture users.yml to do some testing without ha

Answer 1

So I had a similar but slightly different need. I wanted to use my existing fixtures (from my rspec test) to populate my development database. This is how I did it by adding a new task to my rake file (located in libs/tasks/*.rake):

task d_populate: :environment do
  require 'active_record/fixtures'
  fixtures_dir = File.join(Rails.root, '/spec/fixtures') #change '/spec/fixtures' to match your fixtures location
  Dir.glob(File.join(fixtures_dir,'*.yml')).each do |file|
  base_name = File.basename(file, '.*')
  puts "Loading #{base_name}..."
  ActiveRecord::Fixtures.create_fixtures(fixtures_dir, base_name)
  end
end

If you combine this with a db:reset you can populate your development environment at will by adding this to your rake task as well:

task reseed: [:environment, 'db:reset', 'db:d_populate']

Then you can call rake db:reseed to populate from fixture YAML files.