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!

Answer 1

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 🙂