Well, I never solved this, but came up with a workaround. Since I don't need these fixtures to have any association linkage I just added a method to my spec helper:
def get_owl(name) returning Owl.find_or_initialize_by_name(name) do |owl| if owl.new_record? owl.name = name owl.body = File.read("#{RAILS_ROOT}/spec/fixtures/#{name}_owl.xml") owl.save end end end
Seems to work well enough for my needs.
Alex Wayne wrote:
