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= MigrationDataDumper
=== Motivation
The current Rails migration system is great, but while it addresses schema changes wonderfully, it does nothing to preserve the all important data.
=== Solution
This plugin adds the methods save_table_to_fixture and restore_table_from_fixture to ActiveRecord::Migration, which dump and restore the data from the specified table. The data is saved into a fixture file named after the table under #{RAILS_ROOT}/db/data/#{RAILS_ENV}/.
These methods should be called within the migration file, at the end of the up and beginning of the down method. See
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