Please provide a full example for non ruby developper

[jrweb247]

Hi,

I'm very interesting by your script but I not a ruby developer, so I don't know how to configure active records according to my mysql credentials !

thanks a lot

[Envek]

@jrweb247, hi!

This gem is not a standalone solution and aimed to be used with existing applications that are using ActiveRecord (Ruby on Rails or Sinatra or anything).

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In case of Rails, this gem is intended to use an existing configuration of your application. So just configure your database.yml or specify DATABASE_URL environment variable.

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If you want to use it as a standalone application, you can place exerything in single file like this:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'bundler/inline'

gemfile do
  source 'https://rubygems.org'
  gem 'activerecord'
  gem 'evil-seed'
  gem 'mysql2'
end

require 'tempfile'

class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :translations, class_name: "Category::Translation"
end

class Category::Translation < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :category, inverse_of: :translations
end

EvilSeed.configure do |config|
  config.root("Category", "id < ?", 1000)
end

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(ENV.fetch("DATABASE_URL"))

EvilSeed.dump(File.join(__dir__, "dump.sql").to_s)

And launch it like so:

DATABASE_URL=mysql2://user:pass@host/db ruby path/to/your/script.rb

Here you need to

1. Describe your database layout with ActiveRecord models (see http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_basics.html)
2. Connect to your database (see http://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#configuring-a-database)
3. Start dumping

[Envek]

@jrweb247, feel free to reopen this issue if you have any questions left.