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In Rails 2.0, fixtures has been improved.  You no longer need to specify ID.  You can check out the screencast.  unfortunately, it does not support the has_one (as far as I can tell).

I have a location object that specifies a phone number, a name, and an address object.  It is specified as follows:

class Location < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_one :address
end

My address class is simply:

class Address < ActiveRecord::Base
end

My address fixture file addresses.yml looks like this:

address1:
  address1: 1234 E Main St
  address2:
  city: Denver
  state: CO
  postal_code: 80014

My locations.yml file looks like:

location1:
  phone: 555-555-5555
  address: address1

If I try to do rake test:units, I get errors saying the ‘address’ column is unknown. Interestingly, if I change the has_one: to belongs_to:, it works just fine.

My work around is to revert to the old style and go ahead and specify ids.

addresses.yml:

address1:
  id: 1
  address1: 1234 E Main St
  address2:
  city: Denver
  state: CO
  postal_code: 80014

locations.yml

location1:
  phone: 555-555-5555
  address_id: 1