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For those of you tired of referencing the fixture method when building a collection of fixtures, your day has come

Gone are the days of unnecessary typing:

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fixtures :states
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assert_equal [states(:nc), states(:va)], State.find(:all)

and here are the days of a convenient syntax for retrieving more than one fixture at a time:

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fixtures :states
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assert_equal states(:nc, :va), State.find(:all)

Revolutionary? No. Useful? Yes.

tags: ruby, rubyonrails