I finally found the problem, although the solutions is kind of hacky.
Put the call to fixtures :all in your test class, not the super class (test_helper). My guess is that initialization of the super class isn't working the way you're expecting and that fixtues :all isn't be called. Perhaps try putting the call in the initialize method of test_helper.
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