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Foxy Fixtures Explained
Rails integrated a plugin called Foxy Fixtures into the core API. How does it work? It allows you to refer to other fixtures by name, instead of by ID (so no more hard-coded IDs). But there’s a gotcha–the IDs are generated automatically, so they’re not 1 or 2 like you might expect (for your first and second fixtures). Continue reading