On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Ralph Shnelvar <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to make sure the first user gets to set it's role attribute to enum > :admin as the default when the record is created and all other users are > enum :user. > > Of course a billion users is ridiculous. I'm just trying to understand what > the, uh, best way to see if a Postgres table is empty without actually > having to load it. Assuming the table is "users" and User is an ActiveRecord model, (User.count == 0) should work. However, doing that for every subsequent user creation seems like a bit of a waste. I would just use the db/seeds.rb file to create that first admin user and be done with it :-) FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] twitter: @hassan Consulting Availability : Silicon Valley or remote -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CACmC4yArZbpBoLiCkeFkrbHjSA8ON%3D%3DX7pwqgnTRZ%3Dsz69gZMA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
