Comments on Cuberick: How to Migrate Fixtures in Rails

Wow. Nice writeup william. I'm going to modify t...

2008-04-01T07:12:00.000-07:00

Wow. Nice writeup william. I'm going to modify the original post to include your link.

I dunno how useful the changes will be, cuz I don'...

2008-03-29T19:50:00.000-07:00

I dunno how useful the changes will be, cuz I don't know how much use the plugin gets. However, since any auto-generated scaffolding will be empty by default, I'd think that most who use the plugin might benefit.

In any case, I've written up a semi-comprehensive analysis of our experience using the fixture migrator on my blog at http://www.williambharding.com/blog/rails/rails-update-fixtures-upon-migration/

For anyone else who might be intending to use this, it has some handy caveats and workarounds I've discovered while this for a few months.

Thanks again for a very helpful plugin!

william. Thanks for the comment. If you think yo...

2008-02-27T00:52:00.000-08:00

william. Thanks for the comment. If you think your changes are worth adding to the rake task I'd be happy to take a patch. As it stands I haven't been using rails for a long time so this code has been untended for some time.

Nice work, this is exactly what I'd been hoping wo...

2008-02-27T00:02:00.000-08:00

Nice work, this is exactly what I'd been hoping would exist somewhere. It worked for me almost-out-of-the-box (using Rails 2), I just had to wrap lines 14-16 in migrate_fixtures.rb in an if, so that they don't try to execute if my yaml file is empty.

Also, my fixture migration runs in its entirety every time I use it, but this isn't a big problem; it just means more waiting around. The end result is worth it.