Generate a couple hundred rows of dummy data - how?

Rails
1

Simple task – I’ve done some custom pagination and I need to fill up a
table with a bunch of rows so I can play around with the back and next
buttons. Is there an easy way from the command line perhaps to just
fire off a couple hundred copies of an existing table row? Thanks!

2

On 12/8/05, Sean S. [email protected] wrote:

Simple task – I’ve done some custom pagination and I need to fill up a
table with a bunch of rows so I can play around with the back and next
buttons. Is there an easy way from the command line perhaps to just
fire off a couple hundred copies of an existing table row? Thanks!

Fire up script/console

1000.times do
Article.create :body => ‘Article body text’, whatever else here
end

Should create a thousand articles for you.

3

Sean,

I’d use script/console. Example:

i = Item.find(:first)
30.times { i.clone.save }

Cody

On 12/8/05, Sean S. [email protected] wrote:

http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails

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http://www.codyfauser.com

4

Thanks so much guys. Cody’s tip was exactly what I was looking for.
Three helpful responses within 20 minutes of my post! Oh I do love the
Rails community. Cheers :slight_smile:

5

If it’s in a test framework, you can do something like this:

200.times do
MyModel.new({…}).save
end