diff --git a/test/test_helper.rb b/test/test_helper.rb
--- a/test/test_helper.rb
+++ b/test/test_helper.rb
@@ -1,29 +1,16 @@
 ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
-require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment")
-require 'test_help'
+require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)
+require 'rails/test_help'
 
 class ActiveSupport::TestCase
-  # Transactional fixtures accelerate your tests by wrapping each test method
-  # in a transaction that's rolled back on completion.  This ensures that the
-  # test database remains unchanged so your fixtures don't have to be reloaded
-  # between every test method.  Fewer database queries means faster tests.
+  # Setup all fixtures in test/fixtures/*.(yml|csv) for all tests in alphabetical order.
   #
-  # Read Mike Clark's excellent walkthrough at
-  #   http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom/2005/10/24#Rails10FastTesting
-  #
-  # Every Active Record database supports transactions except MyISAM tables
-  # in MySQL.  Turn off transactional fixtures in this case; however, if you
-  # don't care one way or the other, switching from MyISAM to InnoDB tables
-  # is recommended.
+  # Note: You'll currently still have to declare fixtures explicitly in integration tests
+  # -- they do not yet inherit this setting
+  fixtures :all
+
+  # Add more helper methods to be used by all tests here...
 
   self.use_transactional_fixtures = true
-
-  # Instantiated fixtures are slow, but give you @david where otherwise you
-  # would need people(:david).  If you don't want to migrate your existing
-  # test cases which use the @david style and don't mind the speed hit (each
-  # instantiated fixtures translates to a database query per test method),
-  # then set this back to true.
   self.use_instantiated_fixtures  = false
-
-  # Add more helper methods to be used by all tests here...
 end