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

It's possible to specify an alternate fixture directory using the FIXTURES_DIR variable. The value should be relative to test/fixtures.

$ rake db:fixtures:load RAILS_ENV=test FIXTURES_DIR='../../spec/fixtures'

It's also possible to specify a limited set of fixtures

$ rake db:fixtures:load RAILS_ENV=test FIXTURES_DIR='../../spec/fixtures' FIXTURES=users,user_roles