Rails Fixtures vs. Mocks

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Published on 2010-05-26T22:09:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 22:11 UTC
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Hi there,

I'm developing a Rails app, and I was just talking with my colleague that we have a mix of fixtures and mocks in our tests, which we're doing using cucumber and Rspec. The question would be: when should each one be used?

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