Fixtures are great ways to include test data with your application so it can be easily ported and tested. If you have an app with Fixtures included and can’t seem to get it working, perhaps it’s because you have not activated them!

Activating fixtures in Django is an easy one line process:

>>python manage.py loaddata #fixturename

You need to be in the current directory of your project, but you do not need to be in the /fixtures directory. It is also worth noting that if you have your python running in a virtual environment, might want to make sure that is running!