Rails - Dec 2005 - Generate a couple hundred rows of dummy data - how?

Simple task -- I''ve done some custom pagination and I need to fill up a
table with a bunch of rows so I can play around with the back and next
buttons.  Is there an easy way from the command line perhaps to just
fire off a couple hundred copies of an existing table row?  Thanks!

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On 12/8/05, Sean Schertell <sean-ZFxOO9cya7fR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Simple task -- I''ve done some custom pagination and I need to fill
up a
> table with a bunch of rows so I can play around with the back and next
> buttons.  Is there an easy way from the command line perhaps to just
> fire off a couple hundred copies of an existing table row?  Thanks!
Fire up script/console

1000.times do
  Article.create :body => ''Article body text'', whatever
else here
end

Should create a thousand articles for you.

Sean,

I''d use script/console.  Example:

i = Item.find(:first)
30.times { i.clone.save }


Cody


On 12/8/05, Sean Schertell <sean-ZFxOO9cya7fR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Simple task -- I''ve done some custom pagination and I need to fill
up a
> table with a bunch of rows so I can play around with the back and next
> buttons.  Is there an easy way from the command line perhaps to just
> fire off a couple hundred copies of an existing table row?  Thanks!
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If it''s in a test framework, you can do something like this:

200.times do
   MyModel.new({...}).save
end

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Sean Schertell wrote:
> Simple task -- I''ve done some custom pagination and I need to fill
up a
> table with a bunch of rows so I can play around with the back and next
> buttons.  Is there an easy way from the command line perhaps to just
> fire off a couple hundred copies of an existing table row?  Thanks!

Thanks so much guys.  Cody''s tip was exactly what I was looking for. 
Three helpful responses within 20 minutes of my post!  Oh I do love the 
Rails community.  Cheers :-)

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