So I have used minitest for about 8 months now for testing and all in all it turns out that I loved it more than I expected.  I just moved back to an in progress in house project written using Rspec with FactoryGirl and realized I want my minitest and  fixtures back.  So i found a great script that will generate fixturess based on my database seed.

[ruby]

sql = "SELECT * FROM %s"

skip_tables = ["schema_info"]

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.tables.each do |table_name|

  i = "000"

  File.open("#{Rails.root}/test/fixtures/#{table_name}.yml", 'w') do |file|

  data = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.select_all(sql % table_name)

    file.write data.inject({}) { |hash, record|

      hash["#{table_name}_#{i.succ!}"] = record

      hash

    }.to_yaml

  end

end

[/ruby]