Need to insert some fake data in your development database? Grab the Faker gem and drop this into lib/tasks/fake_data.rb. Customize it for your model(s) and execute with rake db:development:fake_data.
namespace :db do namespace :development do desc "Create records in the development database." task :fake_data => :environment do require 'faker' 100.times do c = Client.create( :first_name => Faker::Name.first_name, :last_name => Faker::Name.last_name, :middle_initial => ("A".."Z").to_a.rand, :ss_number => 99999999 + rand(999999999 - 99999999), :date_of_birth => Time.now - (rand(12000)).days) end end end end
I’m sure there’s more optimization to be done, but it works for me!
UPDATE: I added a few extra lines for data outside of faker.

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