Use Minitest and ActiveRecord4 to load fixtures, without Rails

gistfile1.rb

Bulk of this snagged from: https://gist.github.com/guilleiguaran/56a3879da5f6b6f467ce
Fixtures bit snagged from: https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Fixtures

require 'active_record'
require 'active_record/fixtures'
class MiniTest::Spec
  ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
    :adapter => "sqlite3",
    :database  => "./db/development.sqlite3"
  )

  ActiveRecord::Migration.check_pending!

  include ActiveRecord::TestFixtures

  ActiveRecord::FixtureSet.reset_cache
  fixtures_folder = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'fixtures')
  the_fixtures = Dir[File.join(fixtures_folder, '*.yml')].map {|f| File.basename(f, '.yml') }
  ActiveRecord::FixtureSet.create_fixtures(fixtures_folder, the_fixtures)

  alias :method_name :name if defined? :name


  self.fixture_path = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'fixtures')
  self.use_instantiated_fixtures = false
  self.use_transactional_fixtures = true

  fixtures :all
end

How would you access let's say users(:user_1) having the users.yml file?