How to build task 'db:populate'

Question

  1 namespace :db do
  2   desc "Fill database with sample videos"
  3   task :populate => :environment do
  4     require 'faker'
  5     Rake::Task['db:reset'].invoke
  6     100.times do |n|
  7       headline = Faker::Lorem.sentence(3)
  8       video = Faker::Lorem.words(5)
  9       Video.create!(:headline => headline,
 10                   :video => video)
 11     end
 12   end
 13 end

I currently have this rake task in lib/tasks/sample_data.rb

When running rake db:populate I get the error, Don't know how to build task 'db:populate'. How do I get around this?

Notes: I am a newbie in Rails/Ruby. I am using Rails 3.

score 24 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 17 '11 at 04:06

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Try renaming the file to sample_data.rake.

I was able to get your example working (replacing the internals of the task with a p statement) by putting your code in a file called testomatic.rake in lib/tasks.

answered Mar 17 '11 at 04:06

Mike A.

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Just did the same thing myself! It's always the simple things that get me. – David Tuite May 10 '11 at 08:11

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 13 '11 at 19:14

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I also had this problem. In Finder, the file name was sample_data.rake, but upon clicking "Get Info" for the file, I discovered the full file name was sample_data.rake.erb -- ensure that's not your problem.

answered Apr 13 '11 at 19:14

Ryan Tinker

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 27 '13 at 22:34

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Noobie with the same problem here - my branch was named differently than what I thought when I merged branches, so it reverted back to the old files before I had created my lib/tasks/sample_data.rake file.

Simply going back and re-running git merge with the correct name and pushing to Heroku got it to work.

edited Oct 27 '13 at 22:34

Spooky

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answered Oct 27 '13 at 21:49

John

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How to build task 'db:populate'

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