The main problem with fixtures, for me, has always been how unfun they are. They literally suck the fun out of anything they’re around. You throw them in your test/ directory, then suddenly testing is, like, work. But it’s not work, dammit. This is Ruby, dammit. So, keep them fun. Write your fixtures in Ruby. Step 1: FixtureScenarios Tom Preston-Werner has this FixtureScenarios plugin. The project