http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sun, 18 May 2008 15:42:26 GMT DZone Snippets: DRY code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3114 // Rails Recipes explained how to DRY up the database configuration code. I applied the same idea to user fixtures, which worked while we used MySQL. Once on Postgres, "defaults" started throwing an error. The easiest solution was to make quentin's values the 'defaults' <br /> <br /><code> <br />quentin: &defaults <br /> id: 1 <br /> login: quentin <br /> email: quentin@example.com <br /> site_id: 1 <br /> salt: 7e3041ebc2fc05a40c60028e2c4901a81035d3cd <br /> crypted_password: 00742970dc9e6319f8019fd54864d3ea740f04b1 # test <br /> created_at: <%= 5.days.ago.to_s :db %> <br /> activated_at: <%= 5.days.ago.to_s :db %> # only if you're activating new signups <br />aaron: <br /> id: 2 <br /> login: aaron <br /> email: aaron@example.com <br /> activation_code: aaronscode <br /> site_id: 1 <br /> <<: *defaults <br />#etc... <br /></code> Sat, 09 Dec 2006 03:12:44 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3114 chebuctonian (Daniel Haran) http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2263 From http://blog.bleything.net/articles/2006/06/27/dry-out-your-database-yml: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><code> <br />login: &login <br /> adapter: mysql <br /> username: username <br /> password: password <br /> host: mysql.example.com <br /> <br />development: <br /> <<: *login <br /> database: app_dev <br /> <br />test: <br /> <<: *login <br /> database: app_test <br /> <br />production: <br /> <<: *login <br /> database: app_prod <br /></code> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:15:02 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2263 MattScilipoti (Matt Scilipoti)