> That worked!

> Thanks so much.

> Is there a way to do this that requires less song and dance around the
> single line of code I'm interested in in the seeds file?

> Do folks tend to not use active_record models directly to import seed data
> and defer to straight yaml and tools like datashift?

> Cheers again

> Ben

> On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 07:49:12 UTC+10, Joe wrote:

>> Looks like it needs to be namespaced.

>> Spree::Product.create etc.

>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:45 PM, bensullivan <bensulli...@bensullivan.net
>> > wrote:

>>> Hi folks

>>> I am developing a new spree store for a client who only has about 15
>>> products currently so I just need to get them in without having to do it
>>> through the UI every time.

>>> I've been looking at the seeds.rb file in my new store generated by the
>>> spree install command.

>>> It seems like the place to do this kind of stuff and then plugging it in
>>> using the Rails rakes tasks.

>>> I figured it's safer using the Spree active_record models to import data
>>> as I only have maybe 15 or so products and I'll get all the data validation
>>> moving forward.  I have seen the spree_sample gem which seems to use yaml
>>> to get the demo store data in.  I was going to use that as the backup plan.

>>> So I'm trying to put a basic record creation line of code in the
>>> seeds.rb file:

>>> p = Product.create :name => "Moo", :price => 10.0, :description =>
>>> "meeeeep"

>>> I run "rake db:bootstrap" and I get this at the end of the output:

>>> rake aborted!
>>> uninitialized constant Product

>>> So then this triggers me to put in all the necessary requires - that's
>>> cool.  But then I find there's a few transitive dependencies and the model
>>> classes also need to be added to the load path for me to get to them:

>>> require 'rubygems'

>>> gem 'spree_core'
>>> directory = '/Users/bensullivan/.rvm/gems/**ruby-1.9.3-p125@geometry_**
>>> active_wear/gems/spree_core-1.**1.0'
>>> $LOAD_PATH.unshift(directory) unless $LOAD_PATH.include?(directory)

>>> require 'active_record'
>>> require 'active_support/core_ext/**module/attribute_accessors'
>>> require 'spree/core/delegate_belongs_**to'
>>> require 'app/models/spree/variant'
>>> require 'app/models/spree/product'

>>> p = Product.create :name => "Moo", :price => 10.0, :description =>
>>> "meeeeep"

>>> I get the same error when I retry the db:bootstrap.  I don't get the
>>> loading error I see through rake when I run this script in isolation
>>> (instead I get an error around the database not running which makes more
>>> sense cos it isn't).  I seem to have to go through a lot of hoop jumping to
>>> just create a Product using a spree Model.  Which makes me think either I'm
>>> doing it wrong or if the API isn't making it easy for me to do then I maybe
>>> I shouldn't be doing it at all.

>>> I feel like I'm missing something here - I'm sure there's an easier
>>> "Railsy" way to do this.

>>> Anyone got any pointers?

>>> Cheers

>>> Ben

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