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+Note: For associations to reference one another by name, you cannot specify the `id:`
+ attribute on the fixtures. Rails will auto assign a primary key to be consistent between
+ runs. If you manually specify an `id:` attribute, this behavior will not work. For more
+ information on this assocation behavior please read the
+ [fixture api documentation](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/FixtureSet.html).
+
#### ERB'in It Up
ERB allows you to embed Ruby code within templates. The YAML fixture format is pre-processed with ERB when Rails loads fixtures. This allows you to use Ruby to help you generate some sample data. For example, the following code generates a thousand users: