Best way to export a database table to a YAML file?

Question

I have some data in my development database that I would like to utilize as fixtures in my test environment. What is the best way in Rails 2.x to export a database table to

Answer 1

There is a rake task for this. You can specify RAILS_ENV if needed; the default is the development environment:

rake db:fixtures:dump
    # Create YAML test fixtures from data in an existing database.