So, I finally realized I could accomplish this by setting
ENV['FIXTURES_PATH'], but it took me a while to realize this.

I submitted the following PR to make this "just work" for users of rspec +
fixtures.

https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/27432

Thanks,
-- Chad

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 7:46 PM, Chad Woolley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I usually keep my fixtures in `spec/fixtures`.
>
> In order for `rake db:fixtures:load` to work, I've always had to symlink
> `test/fixtures` to point to `spec/fixtures`.
>
> I was trying to avoid this in a new Rails 5 project, but I could see any
> way to (even monkey patching `ActiveSupport::TestCase#fixture_path`
> didn't work).
>
> I realize rspec-rails allows you to set it via `config.fixture_path`, but
> this doesn't help when doing `db:fixtures:load`, which is dev env.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to do something like this in `config/development.rb`:
>
> ` config.active_record.fixture_path = "#{::Rails.root}/spec/fixtures"`
>
> Am I missing something obvious?  If not, what do you think about a patch
> to support the above line?
>
> Thanks,
> -- Chad
>

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