Quick and Dirty Guide to your 1st Rails app – Part #1
For all of you who want to take a peek at creating a Ruby on Rails application and need a quick start, this post is designed to aid you in getting to know RoR. I will post follow-ups to this to make this first application better and better and to incorporate more complex functionality in [...]
Rails: Extracting fixtures from databases
With this simple rake task (put it in lib/tasks/extract_fixtures.rake) you can extract your data from an existing DB to prevent overwriting of data when using rake db:fixtures:load:
desc ‘Create YAML test fixtures from data in an existing database.’
task :extract_fixtures => :environment do
sql = “SELECT * FROM %s”
skip_tables = ["schema_info"]
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection
(ActiveRecord::Base.connection.tables – skip_tables).each do
|table_name|
[...]
