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      <diff>@@ -179,12 +179,15 @@ namespace :db do
   end
 
   namespace :fixtures do
-    desc &quot;Load fixtures into the current environment's database.  Load specific fixtures using FIXTURES=x,y&quot;
+    desc &quot;Load fixtures into the current environment's database.  Load specific fixtures using FIXTURES=x,y. Load from subdirectory in test/fixtures using FIXTURES_DIR=z.&quot;
     task :load =&gt; :environment do
       require 'active_record/fixtures'
-      ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(RAILS_ENV.to_sym)
-      (ENV['FIXTURES'] ? ENV['FIXTURES'].split(/,/) : Dir.glob(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'test', 'fixtures', '*.{yml,csv}'))).each do |fixture_file|
-        Fixtures.create_fixtures('test/fixtures', File.basename(fixture_file, '.*'))
+      ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(Rails.env)
+      base_dir = File.join(Rails.root, 'test', 'fixtures')
+      fixtures_dir = ENV['FIXTURES_DIR'] ? File.join(base_dir, ENV['FIXTURES_DIR']) : base_dir
+
+      (ENV['FIXTURES'] ? ENV['FIXTURES'].split(/,/).map {|f| File.join(fixtures_dir, f) } : Dir.glob(File.join(fixtures_dir, '*.{yml,csv}'))).each do |fixture_file|
+        Fixtures.create_fixtures(File.dirname(fixture_file), File.basename(fixture_file, '.*'))
       end
     end
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      <filename>railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake</filename>
    </modified>
  </modified>
  <removed type="array"/>
  <parents type="array">
    <parent>
      <id>9783e66cade4d145389cca18fab822f44d03161a</id>
    </parent>
  </parents>
  <author>
    <name>Jacek Becela</name>
    <email>jacek.becela@gmail.com</email>
  </author>
  <url>http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/697ee1a50dea7580a7240535d3ad89d2d090721a</url>
  <id>697ee1a50dea7580a7240535d3ad89d2d090721a</id>
  <committed-date>2008-07-13T17:32:01-07:00</committed-date>
  <authored-date>2008-07-09T12:34:04-07:00</authored-date>
  <message>Enable loading fixtures from arbitrary locations. [#586 state:resolved]

Signed-off-by: Pratik Naik &lt;pratiknaik@gmail.com&gt;</message>
  <tree>154cce607d90477b6e901b8977c75ce8107cd952</tree>
  <committer>
    <name>Pratik Naik</name>
    <email>pratiknaik@gmail.com</email>
  </committer>
</commit>
