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Mirror318
Mirror318

Reputation: 12693

rake db:seed doesn't do anything

I have made a small db/seeds.rb file:

web = Website.find_or_create_by(id: 1) do |w|
  w.website = "http://example.dev/"
  w.banner_msg = "Hey! Banner message!"
  w.signup_msg = "Wahey! Sign up message!"
  w.bg_col = "#333"
  w.txt_col = "#EEE"
  w.btn_col = "#999"
end

pub = Publisher.find_or_create_by(id: 1) do |p|
  p.phone = "021 111 1111"
  p.website = web
end

User.find_or_create_by(id: 1) do |u|
  u.email = '[email protected]'
  u.password = 'password'
  u.first_name = 'Joe'
  u.last_name = 'Bob'
  u.publisher = pub
end

User.create(id: 5, email: "[email protected]")

When I run rake db:seed, the terminal simply accepts the command and presents a new line, no error message, no "rake abort!", nothing.

When I check the fields in Rails Console, there's nothing there. What's happening?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3155

Answers (2)

user212514
user212514

Reputation: 3130

You can use find_or_create_by!(attributes, &block) which is like find_or_create_by, but calls create! so an exception is raised if the created record is invalid. APIDock

Upvotes: 5

Mirror318
Mirror318

Reputation: 12693

Ok I found out that

1) The colors were breaking, they are not allowed to be 3 digits here, had to be the full 6.

2) My chain of relations was wrong. I had user has a publisher, which has a website, when the models were actually setup where website has a publisher which has a user.

My annoyance here is there were absolutely no error messages. I had to copy and paste the contents of seeds.rb into Rails Console, then all it said was rollback, so I had to enter user.errors to see the errors for the user, and like wise for the other models.

Does anyone have suggestions on better error feedback for this kind of situation?

Upvotes: 0

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