I'm in the process of writing test fixtures for our rails site. A lot of my tests require authentication, so I've had to port our permissions system into a fixture. Rather than type out all of the information for the fixture, I decided to create a nested loop that will take care of this for me.

There's probably a rake task for this, but I wasn't able to find it, so I came up with my own solution. You'll have to do a little cleanup when it's done, however some slight mods to this loop could even eliminate that.

When doing a lot of testing in script/console, you often have to reload to pickup changes in DB schema, models and libs. The process of quitting the console and restarting it can become incredibly tedious amidst bugtracking.

note: I don't believe this reloads items in the libs dir

From time to time you may have reasons to override the default find method that ActiveRecord provides. In this example, we'll store a side-copy of the record attributes so that we have some basis for discovering changes to the data.

note: this will not override dynamic finders such as find_by_id

By default, migrations will run on the development environment. Here's how you would specify another environment.