FastSeeder

By Sergey Potapov

Speed up seeding database in Rails application using multiple SQL inserts!

Deprecation

The project is deprecated and no longer supported. Please consider using activerecord-import instead.

Installation

Add to Gemfile:

gem "fast_seeder"

Usage

Seeding from CSV file

Lets say you have CSV file db/seeds/cities/ukraine.csv:

Kharkov,1654
Lviv,1240
Kiev,600

You can populate DB with it using FastSeeder:

# Seeding from CSV file:
FastSeeder.seed_csv!(City, "cities/ukraine.csv", :name, :founded_in, :country => "Ukraine")

Technically it equals to:

City.create(:name => "Kharkov", :founded_in => 1654, :country => "Ukraine")
City.create(:name => "Lviv"   , :founded_in => 1240, :country => "Ukraine")
City.create(:name => "Kiev"   , :founded_in => 600 , :country => "Ukraine")

But does the job faster using only one SQL query instead of three. As you also noticed it expects you to pass model class, path to CSV file(located in db/seeds), CSV columns, and default values.

Seeding in place

The next example is equivalent to showed above one, but uses inline data without CSV file:

# Seeding in place:
FastSeeder.seed!(City, :name, :founded_in, :country => "Ukraine") do
  record "Kharkov", 1654
  record "Lviv"   , 1240
  record "Kiev"   , 600
end

Supported database adapters

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL(mysql, mysql2)
• SQLite3

Running specs

rake spec:all               # run specs with all supported adapters
rake spec:mysql             # run specs with mysql adapter
rake spec:mysql2            # run specs with mysql2 adapter
rake spec:postgresql        # run specs with postgresql adapter
rake spec:sqlite3           # run specs with sqlite3 adapter

Rails 3

Gemfile:

gem "fast_seeder", "0.0.2"

Credits

• Sergey Potapov - creator and maintainer

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt