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+2  Q: 

what are some good ways to populate a rails development database with fake data

I am moving away from fixtures and populate and looking for some alternative tools to populate my development database with fake data.

Any thoughts?

A: 

factory_girl is my personal favorite. Nice syntax, flexible.

Milan Novota  2009-03-10 16:21:54
+1  A: 

Take a look at Forgery

Alex Rockwell  2009-03-10 16:25:18
A: 

Here are a few railscasts about this topic:

126 Populating a database

158 Factories not Fixtures

srboisvert  2009-04-20 11:41:12

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