Dumping ActiveRecord objects to yaml

I needed a quick n easy way to move the contents of specified tables (ActiveRecord models) from my production to my development enviro that didn't require a full database backup/restore.  It seems there are a few different plugins/gems to assist with this (like ar_fixtures from nubyonrails), but they seemed like overkill to me. 

Here's a quick snippet to dump the data out to a file for easy transport:

model = User #replace with your model name
f = File.new("/path/to/data/#{model.to_s}.yaml", "w+"); f.puts model.find(:all).to_yaml; f.close

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