YAML - How to load data directly

Rails
1

Hi,

I would like to fill up a development database with some data (YAML
files). YAML is ready, but I don’t have any clue to load them into AR
objects, and persist them to the database (files are utf-8).
Any help?

Jean-Etienne

2

Jean-Etienne:

I may have missed your point, but in case I didn’t and this saves you
some time.

Open terminal and type something like this:

mysql - u root -p<> <<database_name>> goes here
< <<path_tp_yaml_file_goes_here>>

bruce

3

On 26-nov-2005, at 13:24, Bruce B. wrote:

Jean-Etienne:

I may have missed your point, but in case I didn’t and this saves
you some time.

Open terminal and type something like this:

mysql - u root -p<> <<database_name>> goes
here < <<path_tp_yaml_file_goes_here>>

Since when MySQL directly supports YAML dumps, may I ask?

–
Julian ‘Julik’ Tarkhanov
me at julik.nl

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If you want to load your test fixtures to the development database,
just run “rake load_fixtures”.

If you want to have separate fixtures for dev and test, put your dev
fixtures in another directory (say, “db/fixtures”) and copy this to
lib/tasks/fixtures.rake or your Rakefile:

desc “Load fixtures into the current environment’s database”
task :load_dev_fixtures => :environment do
require ‘active_record/fixtures’
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(RAILS_ENV.to_sym)
Dir.glob(File.join(RAILS_ROOT, ‘db’, ‘fixtures’, ‘.yml’)).each do
|fixture_file|
Fixtures.create_fixtures(‘db/fixtures’, File.basename
(fixture_file, '.’))
end
end

Which is just a copy of the original load_fixtures tasks from rails/
railties/lib/tasks/database.rake with the paths changed.