Don't include fixtures if --skip-activerecord is given

railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/app_generator.rb

@@ -157,7 +157,17 @@ module Rails::Generators
 
     def create_test_files
       return if options[:skip_testunit]
-      directory "test"
+      empty_directory "test"
+
+      inside "test" do
+        template "test_helper.rb"
+
+        directory "fixtures"
+        directory "functional"
+        directory "integration"
+        directory "performance"
+        directory "unit"
+      end
     end
 
     def create_tmp_files

railties/lib/rails/generators/rails/app/templates/test/test_helper.rb

@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ class ActiveSupport::TestCase
   #
   # Note: You'll currently still have to declare fixtures explicitly in integration tests
   # -- they do not yet inherit this setting
+<% unless  options[:skip_activerecord] -%>
   fixtures :all
+<% end  -%>
 
   # Add more helper methods to be used by all tests here...
 end