Monsanto

Similar to Seedbank, but with automatic dependency sorting.

Installation

Add this line to your Rails 4+ application's Gemfile:

gem 'monsanto'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Usage

Create a directory strucure for your rake tasks that looks like this:

/lib/tasks/populate/

Inside the populate directory, create another directory to tell Monsanto the environment you'd like to populate. If you'd like to populate your development environment, do:

/lib/tasks/populate/development/

If your application has wine reviews, with each review belonging to both a reviewer of class "User" and a wine, and with each wine belonging to a winery, create populators for each of these models, like so:

/lib/tasks/populate/development/users.populator.rb
/lib/tasks/populate/development/reviews.populator.rb
/lib/tasks/populate/development/wine.populator.rb
/lib/tasks/populate/development/wineries.populator.rb

Use the same syntax and conventions you'd use in a standard Rails seed.rb file. Once you run rake db:populate:development, Monsanto will use ActiveRecord reflection and tsort to run them in the correct order.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/monsanto/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request