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Tarek El Hinaoui
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Tarek El Hinaoui
Courses Plus Student 13,220 Points
Posted by Tarek El Hinaoui
Tarek El Hinaoui
Courses Plus Student 13,220 Points

Rake Fake task error..

I built the fake.rake task this is the code

 task :fake => :environment  do

        Customer.create (name: Faker::Company.name,
                         city: Faker::Address.city,
                         zipcode: Faker::Address.zip.to_i,
                         state: Faker::Address.state_abbr,
                         email: Faker::Internet.email,
                         employees: (rand * 100).to_i)
    end

    end

But when i run it i get the following error rake fake DL is deprecated, please use Fiddle rake aborted! SyntaxError: C:/Users/Tarek/treehouse/projects/biller/lib/tasks/fake.rake:3: syntax error, unexpected tLABEL Customer.create (name: Faker::Company.name, ^ C:/Users/Tarek/treehouse/projects/biller/lib/tasks/fake.rake:4: syntax error, unexpected tLABEL, expecting '=' city: Faker::Address.city, ^ C:/Users/Tarek/treehouse/projects/biller/lib/tasks/fake.rake:5: syntax error, unexpected tLABEL, expecting '=' zipcode: Faker::Address.zip.to_i, ^ C:/Users/Tarek/treehouse/projects/biller/lib/tasks/fake.rake:6: syntax error, unexpected tLABEL, expecting '=' state: Faker::Address.state_abbr, ^ C:/Users/Tarek/treehouse/projects/biller/lib/tasks/fake.rake:7: syntax error, unexpected tLABEL, expecting '=' email: Faker::Internet.email, ^ C:/Users/Tarek/treehouse/projects/biller/lib/tasks/fake.rake:8: syntax error, unexpected tLABEL, expecting '=' employees: (rand * 100).to_i) ^ C:/Users/Tarek/treehouse/projects/biller/lib/tasks/fake.rake:8: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting keyword_end employees: (rand * 100).to_i) ^ C:/Users/Tarek/treehouse/projects/biller/Rakefile:6:in `<top (required)>' (See full trace by running task with --trace)

Tarek El Hinaoui
Tarek El Hinaoui
Courses Plus Student 13,220 Points
Tarek El Hinaoui
Tarek El Hinaoui
Courses Plus Student 13,220 Points

SOLVED I had to remove the spacing, (name: Faker::Company.name) to (name:Faker::Company.name) it appears that the 1.9+ parser converts the space to a symbol whereas the 1.8 parser did not.

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Tarek El Hinaoui
PLUS
Tarek El Hinaoui
Courses Plus Student 13,220 Points
Tarek El Hinaoui
Tarek El Hinaoui
Courses Plus Student 13,220 Points

SOLVED I had to remove the spacing, (name: Faker::Company.name) to (name:Faker::Company.name) it appears that the 1.9+ parser converts the space to a symbol whereas the 1.8 parser did not.