You can check the machinist gem (https://github.com/notahat/machinist/tree/1.0-maintenance) with Sham (https://github.com/panthomakos/sham) and company. Be aware though that it's pretty slow for big amounts of data (one database write per record)
On Tuesday, February 8, 2011 10:13:03 AM UTC+2, Hesham wrote: > > My app is not live yet so I will need some sort of random data > generator for this. > > On Feb 8, 11:32 am, Nikos Dimitrakopoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > > obviously :D > > I was just thinking that could reuse configuration in your database.yml > (for > > credentials, database location, etc) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tuesday, February 8, 2011 8:51:32 AM UTC+2, jim wrote: > > > > > no rake task needed. if you have the mysqldump, use the following > (assuming > > > the dump is dump.sql) > > > > > mysql -u root -p database < dump.sql > > > > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Nikos Dimitrakopoulos < > [email protected]>wrote: > > > > >> How do you do it? Regular sql dump tool (like mysqldump) and then some > > > >> rake task for importing it on the development database? > > > > >> On Tuesday, February 8, 2011 1:42:22 AM UTC+2, paul wrote: > > > > >>> Do you have your app deployed? What I do is populate development with > > > >>> a recent backup of my live server every once in a while. That way I'm > > > >>> seeing what the users are (at least until it drifts). > > > > >>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Hesham <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>> > What would be the best way to populate a development database for a > > > >>> > Rails 3 app? I have looked at faker, but it seems that development > has > > >>> > stopped, any other options? > > > > >> -- > > >> 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. > > > > > -- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > visit my blog athttp://jimlabs.heroku.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.
