How to load fixtures in console in test environment?

Try loading fixtures in the test environment and then launching script/console in that environment like this:

rake db:fixtures:load RAILS_ENV=test
script/console test

After following these instructions I still don't seem to be able to use fixtures from the console.

I'm a beginner trying to learn rails and I think would help my understanding to be able to run the test code in the console.

I've got a fixture file test/fixtures/users.yml that contains:

patrick:
    login: patrick
    password: sekrit
    name: Patrick Lenz
    email: patrick@limited-overload.de
john:
    login: john
    password: gh752px
    name: John Doe
    email: john@doe.com

From the console as suggested above I do:

rake db:fixtures:load RAILS_ENV=test
script/console test

but I still don't seem to be able to use the fixture from the console.  Here is a paste from my console:

    [08:55:31 ~/htdocs/shovell] rake db:fixtures:load RAILS_ENV=test
    (in /Applications/mampstack-0.9.4/apache2/htdocs/shovell)
    [08:55:48 ~/htdocs/shovell] script/console test
    Loading test environment (Rails 2.1.0)
    >> users
    NameError: undefined local variable or method `users' for #<Object:0x389a0>
        from (irb):1

This is running in the tutorial "shovell" application from the "Simply Rails 2" book and the tests that use this fixture do run and pass.

Can anyone tell me how to use a fixture from the console or point me to a good learning resource for working with test code in the console?