I'm going to kill this one.
I saw a talk at pycon that significantly convinced me that test fixtures are the wrong way to go. See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ickNQcNXiS4&feature=player_embedded
starting at 16:26
All sorts of reasons given for why this is bad!
Instead he suggests writing code like this:
def create_profile(**kwargs):
defaults = {
"likes_cheese": True,
"age": 32,
"address": "3815 Brookside Dr",
}
defaults.update(kwargs)
if "user" not in defaults:
defaults["user"] = create_user()
return Profile.objects.create(
**defaults)
and using that to *only* change the fields that you need to test for each thing you're trying out.
fixture_add_user() as elrond made above already pretty close to this.
Anyway, wontfix'ing my own bug! :)
