Heinz Strunk wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a got a question about how and where to load initial data that > is necessary in order to make the website work (menu structure, page > contents, ...) > > I know it's preference and everybody can do it as s/he wants but I just > wanna know if there's any convention or something like that. > > First of all, how do I normally load necessary data as mentioned above? > Put it in a fixture and load it while migrating or type it directly into > the migration?
Data does not belong in migrations, and fixtures aren't great for this either. I would advise loading it from a separate file. The Seed-Fu plugin might be helpful. > > Secondly what about data that is not needed to run the make the > application work but makes my life easier (e.g. a user account so I > don't have to register myself each time after resetting the migrations)? > Same answer, I suppose. > Thanks, > Hans Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
