Rails - Populate test database with development data

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Published on 2010-04-15T12:07:46Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 12:13 UTC
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Is there any trivial way to copy the data from developmenet database into the test one? I know theres a way to copy schema and recreate database, but is there any rake task to populate test database with development one?

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