Oh, I should have use another term. Under "testing server" I mean "demo server".
So we have 2 DB - one with demo data (to generate demo content on the site, for example, demo news, posts, etc) and another DB schema with no demo data.
And I am inerested how to handle 2 versions of DB with migrations mechanism.
My problem is that the Menu model is more complicated and I cannot do a $this->insert, I have to calculate a lot of preorder stuff to put in the correct values. And if I want to change anything then I have to recalculate everything all over again. Is there a way to make the normal active record work?