My colleague, James Mead, has just released a new version of his mocha stubbing and mocking library for ruby. This one features rspec compatability and auto-verification of assertions. Go and get it and start ridding your rails code of fixtures right now.

A very smart Textmate tip from my colleage, Chris Look, no more scrabbling with the mysql console: That he hacked it together on the train is even more impressive. Taking the ruby on rails on rails thing too far, I think.