Dbserialize =========== Dbserialize provides two rake tasks to store your current environments database tables to Yaml fixtures in db/fixtures and to fill the database with these fixtures. That way it's possible to store sample data consistently in the repository and for all developers on a project to use common sample data instead of manually generating something on every developer machine or sending database dumps around via email. Example ======= To save your database to Yaml call rake db:serialize:save To resore the database from the fixtures call rake db:serialize:load To only export certain tables, set the FIXTURES environment variable to a list of table names seperated by commas: rake FIXTURES="users,posts" db:serialize:save Copyright (c) 2007 [Jan Varwig], released under the MIT license