Ruby on Rails 2.3.5: Populating my prod and devel database with data (migration or fixture?)?

Usually fixtures are used to provide your tests with data, not to populate data into your database. You can - and some people have, like the links you point to - use fixtures for this purpose.

If you did want to use fixtures the advantage over seed is that you can easily export also.

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