How to import a dump .sql file in a rake task

Rails
1

I have a dump of some tables to be filled when the app is setup

‘…/db/dataset/regions_dpt_cities_codes.sql’

I would like to execute a task similar to the >mysql source
<dump_file>
like :
ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute(“source #{path};”) (which
doesn’t run fine, of course…

is it possible in a rake task ? if yes, any suggestion ?

thanks for your suggestions

erwin

2

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Erwin [email protected] wrote:

is it possible in a rake task ? if yes, any suggestion ?

thanks for your suggestions

How about:

task :load_sql_dump
sh ‘mysql -u user -p password < regions_dpt_cities_codes.sql’
end

Personally, I like to see the shell commands as they are executed (a
legacy
of my misspent youth with Makefiles), so I put

verbose(true)

at the top my my Rakefiles.

–wpd

3

I had a similar problem, and started out declaring the username and
password
in every line of the rake tasks. Did not like that, since I had many
rake
tasks, and changing a database connection meant changing every line in
the
rake code.

A better way is as follows (I read this from some google post, but
cannot
remember who it was, so sorry about not giving credit where credit is
due):

1> DBConn is an active record connection.
2> Parse the sql file by splitting on ‘;’.
task :create_empty_schema do
sql = File.open(“path_to_your_file/dataload.sql”).read
sql.split(’;’).each do |sql_statement|
DBConn.connection.execute(sql_statement)
end
puts "Empty Schema has been created ‘#{Time.now}’ "
end

Remove blank lines from the end of the file, or else it complains. So,
it is
a little brittle.