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Ruby ActiveRecord Basics AR Extensions Sample Data / Indexes

Rustem Bedretdinov
Rustem Bedretdinov
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Posted by Rustem Bedretdinov
Rustem Bedretdinov
3,439 Points

Why are we developing rake task to feed out app with data instead of using fixture or FactoryGirl?

Is it done just for this specific example?

2 Answers

Geoffrey Emerson
Geoffrey Emerson
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Geoffrey Emerson
Geoffrey Emerson
18,726 Points

Or just throw your Faker loop into /db/seeds.rb and run rake db:seed. I'm pretty sure that's what it's for. It's right next to your migrations and schema. It runs automatically with rake db:setup if somebody else clones your project to start working on the project.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
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Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

What is wrong with doing it this way? There are lots of ways to do different tasks in Rails, this was Hampton's choice.