Comments on: Creating Valid Records with Populator and Faker http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/creating-valid-records-with-populator-and-faker/ A chess-playing machine of the late 18th century, promoted as an automaton but later proved a hoax. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:56:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Trevor http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/creating-valid-records-with-populator-and-faker/#comment-693 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:08:13 +0000 http://almosteffortless.com/?p=765#comment-693 @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 http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/creating-valid-records-with-populator-and-faker/#comment-692 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:02:36 +0000 http://almosteffortless.com/?p=765#comment-692 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 http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/creating-valid-records-with-populator-and-faker/#comment-691 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:55:04 +0000 http://almosteffortless.com/?p=765#comment-691 Long rake tasks also make a great excuse for getting more coffee :)

]]> By: Trevor http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/creating-valid-records-with-populator-and-faker/#comment-690 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:25:42 +0000 http://almosteffortless.com/?p=765#comment-690 @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/waitin…

]]> By: A Fresh Cup » Blog Archive » Double Shot #301 http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/creating-valid-records-with-populator-and-faker/#comment-689 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:40:35 +0000 http://almosteffortless.com/?p=765#comment-689 [...] Creating Valid Records with Populator and Faker – For filling up your test database with stuff. [...]

]]> By: DrMark http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/creating-valid-records-with-populator-and-faker/#comment-688 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:34:55 +0000 http://almosteffortless.com/?p=765#comment-688 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 http://trevorturk.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/creating-valid-records-with-populator-and-faker/#comment-687 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:36:09 +0000 http://almosteffortless.com/?p=765#comment-687 pluralize.downcase should be tableize

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