Depot¶ ↑

Depot is a simple and more maintainable way to define seed data in Rails.

Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:

gem "depot", "~> 0.2", require: false

You’ve probably did that in the old days of your db/seeds.rb life.

# This file should contain all the record creation needed to seed the database with its default values.
# The data can then be loaded with the rake db:seed (or created alongside the db with db:setup).
#
# Examples:
#
#   cities = City.create([{ name: 'Chicago' }, { name: 'Copenhagen' }])
#   Mayor.create(name: 'Emanuel', city: cities.first)

If there were a better way to populate your database it would be like this:

require "depot"

Depot.construct do
  cities do
    create name: 'Chicago', as: :chicago
    create name: 'Copenhagen'
  end

  # If you prefer you can use the block syntax too.
  mayors do
    create do |m|
      m.name = 'Emanuel'
      m.city = chicago
    end
  end
end

Pretty simple, huh?

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Copyright © 2012 Rainer Borene

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