title: Load seed data in Rails 3 Project
body: <p>Till now, i have been using Fixtures, along with a rake task to create some seed data for my database. This worked well, but i suddenly have weird problems(like getting autogen ids of 1,2,3.. in a model and then wrong ids in the join model, making the association not work at all).</p>
  
  <p>Thus, i was wondering what a better alternative is. I've read about different things, as well as the railscast on seeding data.</p>
  
  <p>My data does not really share same pieces of information. It's like separate entries that have to be inserted as they are. For instance, think that i have to insert 1000 users that have particular abilities and skills. This needs some join models and some neat handling of the associations like fixtures do.</p>
  
  <p>So, is there a better than fixtures way to accomplish that ? </p>