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 One of my motivations for writing this library was to have an easy way to turn on what Rails calls "transactional_fixtures" in my non-rails ActiveRecord projects.
 
-After copying and pasting code to do this several times I decided to package it up as a gem and same everyone a bit of time.
+After copying and pasting code to do this several times I decided to package it up as a gem and save everyone a bit of time.
 
 ## Common Errors