`assigns(:foo)` is fine - You can't use `[ ]` syntax with symbols for "historic reasons": [Documentation FTW](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/testing.html#the-four-hashes-of-the-apocalypse)

@jules2689 fixtures are still ActiveRecord objects, so you should be able to fetch/filter them as normal à la `expected = TestCase.all` or whatever