Seeding the DB: Best approach?

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  • faker

    A library for generating fake data such as names, addresses, and phone numbers. (by faker-ruby)

  • factory_bot

    A library for setting up Ruby objects as test data.

  • Not sure if you want the execution speed to be faster, or the development speed. If it's development, you can use FactoryBot in a script to generate data easily once you have your factories set up.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • postgres-copy

    Simple PostgreSQL's COPY command support in ActiveRecord models

  • Maybe with something like pg-copy or the gem postgres-copy? pg-copy is a PostgreSQL command which lets you copy data from another database, table or file. postgres-copy lets you copy from csv or dat file.

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