Rails - Nov 2007 - Best Practice:: Filling Models With Data

What is the best way (Rails 2.0) for auto populating your models with
data.

For example if I have a category table with several types that are
pre-defined.  What is the best method of auto populating the database
during deployments?

Thanks.
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Use a Rake task.

In Lib/tasks, make this file

import.rake

In that file, put this code:


namespace :db do

  desc "Boostrap my database with default data"
  task :import => :environment do
    User.create :login => "admin", :password=>"admin",
:password_confirmation=>"admin",
email=>"admin-FBj3rGVNSac4Q++5jOxPmw@public.gmane.org"

   # other cool ruby code goes here
  end

end



Then, as part of your deployment,

rake RAILS_ENV="production" db:import

(make that part of your deployment recipe if you wish!)

Hope that helps!

On Nov 26, 2007 4:33 PM, Will Merydith
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> What is the best way (Rails 2.0) for auto populating your models with
> data.
>
> For example if I have a category table with several types that are
> pre-defined.  What is the best method of auto populating the database
> during deployments?
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> >
>
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On Nov 26, 2007 4:33 PM, Will Merydith
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> What is the best way (Rails 2.0) for auto populating your models with
> data.
>
> For example if I have a category table with several types that are
> pre-defined.  What is the best method of auto populating the database
> during deployments?
Fixtures.  RAILS_ENV=production rake db:fixtures:load

And then sometimes I just create data in the migrations, especially if
I don''t have any fixtures up to that point.


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Thanks for the quick reply guys.
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you should reserve fixtures for tests. Rake is a much better tool for
production db setup.


On 11/26/07, Greg Donald <gdonald-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> On Nov 26, 2007 4:33 PM, Will Merydith
<rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > What is the best way (Rails 2.0) for auto populating your models with
> > data.
> >
> > For example if I have a category table with several types that are
> > pre-defined.  What is the best method of auto populating the database
> > during deployments?
>
> Fixtures.  RAILS_ENV=production rake db:fixtures:load
>
> And then sometimes I just create data in the migrations, especially if
> I don''t have any fixtures up to that point.
>
>
> --
> Greg Donald
> http://destiney.com/
>
> >
>
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