Yeah, forgot that ;)

On 4/22/06, dblack / wobblini.net <dblack / wobblini.net> wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, 13 wrote:
>
> >> How about:
> >>    params:
> >>      currencies: <%= random_array.inspect %>
> >>
> >> or something like that.
> >>
> >> David
> >
> > Wow. Thanks, David. This is simple and straight forward, just what I need !
> >
> > # somewhere outside fixture do the initialization of date array
> > today = Date.today
> > first = Date.new(today.year, today.mon, 1)
> > last = (first >> 1) - 1
> > dates  = (first..last).collect { |d| d.to_s }
> >
> > Then in *.yml
> >
> > params:
> >  <%= dates.rand_subset %> # rand_subset is from facets library
>
> I think you'll want to call .inspect; otherwise it will all be strung
> together as a string.
>
> > Again, thanks !
>
> Glad to help :-)
>
>
> David
>
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