Rails acts_as_tenant seed data - ruby-on-rails

I'm using the gem 'acts_as_tenant' in a Rails 3 project.
I would like to seed new data every time a new Tenant is added - but only for the new Tenant.
Is there a way to pass a variable to rake db:seed?
Something like:
rake db:seed -tenant=5
Thanks for the help!

This worked:
$ TENANT=5 rake db:seed
In seed.rb:
statuscode = Statuscode.first_or_create(
:tenant_id => ENV['TENANT'],
:statuscode => 'Completed',
:closed => true
)

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If not, what is the best way to do that?
I need a way to store configurations of the system.
Thanks.
Edited:
The rake db:seed command, basically execute whatever code you write in db/seeds.rb file of your application. Though can write any code in this file, by convention you should write code which populate your database with the basic data,
for example: when ever your deploy your application somewhere, and create a new database for it, you want that user with admin credential must be present there. So you will write the code which create that user in this file. Below is the sample code which will create a user and assign admin role to him.
puts "********Seeding Data Start************"
admin = User.create(:first_name => 'System', :last_name => 'Admin',
:email => 'systemadmin#sunpower.com', :password => 'sunpoweradmin',
:password_confirmation => 'sunpoweradmin', :source_system_id => 'systemadmin',
:source_system => 'LP',:entity_type => "Customer", :target_system => "OPENAM")
if admin.errors.blank?
puts "***User #{admin.first_name} #{admin.last_name} created ***"
admin.add_role :admin # add_role is method defined by rolify gem
puts "***admin role assigned to #{admin.first_name} #{admin.last_name}***"
else
puts "admin user failed to create due to below reasons:"
admin.errors.each do |x, y|
puts"#{x} #{y}" # x will be the field name and y will be the error on it
end
end
puts "********Seeding Data End************"
Now whenever you recreate your database, you just need to run below command to populate the database, with the basic data
$ rake db:seed RAILS_ENV=production
The correct order to setup database in production, with all the rake task available within db namespace is as below
$rake db:create RAILS_ENV=production
$rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
$ rake db:seed RAILS_ENV=production
NOTE: You can replace the first two commands with $rake db:setup RAILS_ENV=production , it will run both create and migrate internally
OR
You could use the rails-settings-cached gem which is a fork of the rails-settings gem
Once setup, you'll be able to do things such as:
Setting.foo = 123
Setting.foo # returns 123
Hope this may help you or what you are looking for..

delayed_jobs not creating rows in delayed_jobs table

In may rails application i wanted to use delayed job. SO i installed delayed jobs as follows.
in gemfile
gem 'delayed_job_active_record', '0.4.3'
then in console
rails generate delayed_job:active_record
rake db:create
It had created delayed_jobs table in database.
And i started
rake jobs:work
Then i added the following code in controller:
Task.handle_asynchronously :in_the_future, :run_at => Proc.new { 5.minutes.from_now }
here Task is the model name.
And in the model task.rb i wrote
def in_the_future
self.update_attiributes(:status=> "updated")
end
After running controller method it's not creating any record in the delayed_jobs table. Please correct me if i am doing anything wrong.
Can You change the controller code to
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Ruby Script to create new model value

Project is the model name and I want to do something like:
Project.create(:name => 'projectname', :identifier => 'projectidentifier')
This should be done in the terminal through a ruby script. I am not going to use rails console to create it nor use seeds.rb in a db file to migrate this as rake db:seed.
Can someone help. Thanks
The easiest way would be using rails runner (which essentially loads rails):
rails runner your_script.rb
The line of code would be a content of that script.
What about a rake task?
on lib/tasks, create a file named data.rake, and the content:
namespace :data
desc "Create project data"
task create_project_data: :environment do
Project.create(name: 'projectname', identifier: 'projectidentifier')
end
end
And you can run it as any rake task
rake data:create_project_data
And it will also appear when you list your rake tasks
rake -T

'rake' "in order to" 'rake'

To prepare database for my Ruby on Rails 3 application I need to run the following steps in the Terminal:
rake db:create
rake db:migrate
rake db:seed
Is it possible to do all those steps in one? Maybe it is possible running a 'rake' command that will "fire" another 'rake' command... but how?!
You can define your own rake tasks which call other tasks as prerequisites:
# lib/tasks/my_tasks.rake
namespace :db do
desc "create, migrate and seed"
task :do_all => [:create,:migrate,:seed] do
end
end
Normally the body of the task would contain Ruby code to do something, but in this case we are just invoking the three prerequisite tasks in turn (db:create,db:migrate,db:seed).
The empty do-end blocks are not needed, e.g. (for zetetic's answer)
$ cat lib/tasks/my_tasks.rake
# lib/tasks/my_tasks.rake
namespace :db do
desc "create, migrate and seed"
task :do_all => [:create,:migrate,:seed]
end
rake db:create db:migrate db:seed will do all that.
zeteitic got it right, but in the event you don't want to namespace this task under "db", you'd want something more like this:
desc "Bootstrap database."
task :bootstrap => ["db:create", "db:migrate", "db:seed"] do; end
And on the command line:
rake bootstrap
# => create, migrate and seed db

prepopulating admin user in database with authlogic rails plugin

I've been using the Authlogic rails plugin. Really all I am using it for is to have one admin user who can edit the site. It's not a site where people sign up accounts. I'm going to end up making the create user method restricted by an already logged in user, but of course, when I clear the DB I can't create a user, so I have to prepopulate it somehow. I tried just making a migration to put a dump of a user I created but that doesn't work and seems pretty hacky. What's the best way to handle this? It's tricky since the passwords get hashed, so I feel like I have to create one and then pull out the hashed entries...
Rails 2.3.4 adds a new feature to seed databases.
You can add in your seed in db/seed.rb file:
User.create(:username => "admin", :password => "notthis", :password_confirmation => "notthis", :email => "admin#example.com")
Then insert it with:
rake db:seed
for production or test
RAILS_ENV="production" rake db:seed
RAILS_ENV="test" rake db:seed
My favorite feature in 2.3.4 so far
If you are using >= Rails 2.3.4 the new features include a db/seeds.rb file. This is now the default file for seeding data.
In there you can simple use your models like User.create(:login=>"admin", :etc => :etc) to create your data.
With this approach rake db:setup will also seed the data as will rake db:seed if you already have the DB.
In older projects I've sometimes used a fixture (remeber to change the password straight away) with something like users.yml:
admin:
id: 1
email: admin#domain.com
login: admin
crypted_password: a4a4e4809f0a285e76bb6b35f97c9323e912adca
salt: 7e8455432de1ab5f3fE0e724b1e71500a29ab5ca
created_at: <%= Time.now.to_s :db %>
updated_at: <%= Time.now.to_s :db %>
rake db:fixtures:load FIXTURES=users
Or finally as the other guys have said you have the rake task option, hope that helps.
Most used approach is to have a rake task that is run after deployment to host with empty database.
Add a rake task:
# Add whatever fields you validate in user model
# for me only username and password
desc 'Add Admin: rake add_admin username=some_admin password=some_pass'
task :add_admin => :environment do
User.create!(:username=> ENV["username"], :password=> ENV["password"],:password_confirmation => ENV["password"])
end

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