Syntax errors on "insert into"

Rails
1

I’m digging around and googling but can’t seem to find what I think is a
simple thing. All I’m trying to do is insert data in a migration into a
table, using regular SQL statements.

LIke this:

class AddStateData < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up

INSERT INTO states values (’’,‘Alaska’);
INSERT INTO states values (’’, ‘Arkansas’);
INSERT INTO states VALUES (’’, ‘Arizona’);
INSERT INTO states VALUES (’’, ‘California’);
INSERT INTO states VALUES (’’, ‘Colorado’);
INSERT INTO states VALUES (’’, ‘Connecticut’);
INSERT INTO states VALUES (’’, ‘District of Columbia’);
INSERT INTO states VALUES (’’, ‘Delware’);
INSERT INTO states VALUES (’’, ‘Florida’);
INSERT INTO states VALUES (’’, ‘Georgia’);
INSERT INTO states VALUES (’’, ‘Hawaii’);

Pretty simple i think, but in RadRails it shows multiple syntax errors.

Anyone mind telling me what’s wrong ?

TIA
Stuart

2

“Dark” == Dark A. [email protected] writes:

Anyone mind telling me what’s wrong ?

You’re putting wodges of one programming language into code written in
another one. What on Earth made you think you could just start putting
SQL into your Ruby program?

	     Calle D. <[email protected]>
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	      -- Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
3

Good question, with the only answer right now being “I just assume” :wink:
So, I’ll try doing something like this:

State.create(:state => ‘New York’,

Stuart

4

Interestingly enough once I got the migration code correct I found out
that
there needs to be a model in place . I had made the error of creating
the
create table migration code first, then the add data for the table. Once
I
created the model though I see it wanted to make the migration for
creating
the table but didn’t override the existing file. Once the model was in
place I could add the data to the table.

Sorry, I’m rambling.
Stuart