Great article! I ran into an issue following these instructions that I thought I would share. Since you have a file named ‘activerecord_test.rb’ RakeTestLoader was throwing an exception about the file not containing a default test. If you rename ‘activerecord_test.rb’ to ‘activerecord_test_helper.rb’ then it doesn’t expect it to contain any tests and it works perfectly.

Thanks!
James

Great writeup. I was wondering if you knew how to get something like ‘fixtures :all’ or ‘fixtures :users’ at the top of the test class to work or in a test do something like ‘chris = users(:chris)’. I realize that create_fixtures works just fine, but I’ve been dying to know how to get those last two pieces to work.