Re: [Rails] Simple database question

On 24 May 2011 20:55, Benjamin Mulaosmanovic <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Just starting up with rails. I have a textfile with a lot of records in
> the form Name Description.
>
> I would like to put these into my database. What is the quickest and
> best way to do this assuming the database is already set up.

You can write code in db/seeds.rb to read the data and write to the
database (using your ActiveRecord models). Then run
rake db:seed
to run seeds.rb and seed the database from your text file. This will
default to the development db. To seed the production db do
rake RAILS_ENV=production db:seed

Colin

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