Recently I needed some data to test such features as pagination and search. I only had 10 fixtures in the database and this wasn’t enough to test on.
I could have created a bunch of records filling in the fields with random characters but that is a not a very eloquent solution. Instead I wrote a rake task saved as: lib/tasks/faker.rake.
Here is my code
desc "Insert 100 projects using the faker gem"
task :insert_projects => :environment do
require 'faker'
1..100.times do |i|
b = Project.create( :name => Faker::Company.name,
:slogan => Faker::Company.bs)
end
puts "Faked project records"
end
Originally I used .create! but I found occasionally there were conflicting records so a .save may pass false, now it won’t fail if it passes false and will carry on with the rest.
