Rails Fixtures being used for Mocks

fixture_mock.rb

require 'ostruct'
require 'yaml'

 
#
# A quick and dirty example of something that could be inside of rails to provide
# a stupid simple mock for a model object that has an associated fixture.
#
# ==== Example
#
# Fixture.mock("people", "david") # => OpenStruct object representing the person object for David.
#
class Fixture
  def self.mock(fixture_file, name)
    path = Rails.root.join("test/fixtures").join("#{fixture_file}.yml")
    file = File.open(path)
    yaml = YAML::load(file)[name.to_s]
    OpenStruct.new(yaml)
  end
end