Comments on: Creating Valid Records with Populator and Faker

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:08:13 +0000

@Mario – of course, that’s what I’m taking a walk to get :)

@Casper – yeah, I guess you could raise an error if your RAILS_ENV is production, but I consider this to be the kind of thing that you’d never run in production on accident. It’s like running “rake db:drop” – anybody can do it with access to the production machine, if you know what I mean. Perhaps you could put this file into your project, but exclude it from your repo (e.g. .gitignore) and then it would never even make it into your production app.

By: Casper

Casper — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:02:36 +0000

Shouldn’t you be checking to make sure the task is only run in the test environment? Looks like a pretty efficient way to accidentally blast your dev or production db :-/

By: Mario Zigliotto

Mario Zigliotto — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:55:04 +0000

Long rake tasks also make a great excuse for getting more coffee :)

By: Trevor

Trevor — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:25:42 +0000

@Chris, thanks – I’ve updated this post to reflect that.

@DrMark, I’ve been meaning to check out Factory Girl. I’m heading over to the site now to take a closer look. For others who might be looking for the same thing, here’s a link:

http://giantrobots.thoughtbot.com/2008/6/6/waiting-for-a-factory-girl

By: A Fresh Cup » Blog Archive » Double Shot #301

A Fresh Cup » Blog Archive » Double Shot #301 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:40:35 +0000

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By: DrMark

DrMark — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:34:55 +0000

I am sure that you have seen it, but FactoryGirl makes this virtually painlessly. You can also build tests for all of your factories to ensure they are valid.

Best of luck

By: Chris Eppstein

Chris Eppstein — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:36:09 +0000

pluralize.downcase should be tableize