Generate new record from fixture

Question

I have a fixture called "group":

one:
   customer: one
   name: MyString

In one test I need a couple more so I would like to do something like:

  (1..3).each { |t| Group.create!(groups(:one), name: "Group #{t}")}

Is there a way to do something like that with fixtures? (The above of course doesn't work). I know that I could use factories but I want to keep using fixtures.

Answer 1

your second example is a kind of Factory.

if you want to use (yaml) fixtures, you can simply produce them with a script similar to your second example, along the lines of:

y = {"two" => {"customer" => "two", "name" => "londiwe"}}.to_yaml   
fi = open("groups.yml", "w")
fi.write(y)
fi.close

edit after comment: if you just want to take attributes from an existing record and create new records based on that one record, use clone:
1. first find the record you want to clone:

orig = Group.find_by_customer("one")

2. create the clone, change its attributes and save it

(1..3).each do 
     tmp_clone = orig.clone 
     tmp_clone.name = "two"
     tmp_clone.save
end