[Dbix-class] RFC: DBIx::Class::Fixtures

luke saunders luke at shadowcatsystems.co.uk
Wed Feb 6 09:59:28 GMT 2008


Indeed. They can also be useful if you want each of your developers to
work against their own development database rather than sharing one.
If your prod db is too large to be practical to replicate x times then
it can be useful to have a fixture set to populate the dev databases
with.

On Feb 6, 2008 1:38 AM, Jon Schutz <jon+dbix at youramigo.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 17:25 -0800, Benjamin Hitz wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hey, uh... what's a Fixture?
> > I googled around a bit but that surprisingly didn't help.  Pointer?
> >
> >
>
> Here's a lead:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_fixture
>
> In short - a pre-canned database for test purposes.
>
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