Rails 3 - DB seed data validation

Question

I am seeding a test database in Rails 3.1 through thousands of create calls in the seeds.rb file.

A little problem arises when these calls do not pass the model validations: rails will not notify me this, and the seeding goes on correctly until the end of the file. At the end of the process I do not know which records have been created and which aren't, unless I check them one by one ...

Is there a way to get notified when records do not pass validations when using rake db:seed or rake db:reset?

Thank you!

benchwarmer · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-29 08:22:59Z

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You can create validations you want in the Models and use ModelName.create!. This will raise an exception if the input is invalid

Check this out http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Validations/ClassMethods/create!

Hope this helps :)

edited Oct 29, 2012 at 8:22

answered Dec 23, 2011 at 12:59

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robyoder Over a year ago

Thank you for this. Just a note for others, I searched my seed file for .create( and replaced with .create!( and quickly found my validation issue.

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