How to load fixtures into any plain old Ruby?

[jakeonrails]

I'm trying to re-use Oaken fixtures in a Lookbook for presenting previews of Rails view components.

How do I load an Oaken seed like accounts.admin_user in a plain Ruby class? It seems like including the Oaken::TestSetup doesn't seem to work - it expects the including class to be a ActiveSupport::TestCase.

Or is there an Oaken class method I can call? Like Oaken.load(:accounts) or something?

[kaspth]

Hey, thanks for opening this! I definitely need to look into this more. It's a bit ironic because this is actually part of Oaken's design goals to support this kind of stuff, I just haven't quite fleshed it out yet.

I'm not too familiar with Lookbook and how it boots, but you can do stuff like this:

include Oaken::Seeds
seed "cases/lookbook"

def some_preview
  accounts.admin_user # Or Oaken::Seeds.accounts.admin_user
end

Or:

Oaken::Seeds.seed "cases/lookbook"

def some_preview
  Oaken::Seeds.accounts.admin_user
end

Then in db/seeds/cases/lookbook.rb, you can set up the models and relationships specific to previews.

I definitely need to think about this more. I probably need to fiddle more with Lookbook and/or what I intended for http://github.com/bullet-train-co/showcase