V2 Generating Seed-fu Data
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The Issue
It is necessary to generate seed-fu data from exeisting database to allow to use prepared data as source of a new configuration, e.g. for metro projects, or hydro projects, etc.
The Tool
A new rake task is created in lib/tasks/write_sample_data.rake, namely "generate_seed_fu".
Usage
The curly braces represents optional settings.
rake db:generate_seed_fu {CLASS_NAMES=class_name_1{,class_name_n}} {FIXTURE_PATH=fixture_path}CLASS_NAMES - comma eparated list of classes to be exported into fixture files. Default = "Classification,ClassificationClass,FileTypeRef"
FIXTURE_PATH - relative or absolute path the files to bw written to. Relative path is realtive to Rails.root. Default = "db/fixtures/project"