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Data to populate the Postgres for the farm-budgets-app
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Rethink our entire farm-budgets-data #36

Closed qjhart closed 8 years ago

qjhart commented 9 years ago

One idea for the farm-budgets-data repo, was that we could create a set of CSV files that would serve equally well as input into our budgeting data, as well as input into a spreadsheet. The idea being you could make changes in the spreadsheet quicker than in the application, and get some benefit from that. However, we have found in general that:

So, we are thinking it's maybe best to ditch this method, and just save directly the JSON representation of farms, materials, and prices.

@jrmerz and I have discussed some different plans for this, some involving a continuously running mongodb, in which case this would be just a periodic dump of that db at various stages.

jrmerz commented 8 years ago

Using command line JS and JSON 'export'.