Trying to work out the syntax of a seeds.rb file for a rake:dbseed command. I have a reference - the first file -- however in my example I do not have an entity 'name' in my db, I have the entity 'username'. Clearly I am not identifying correctly that the user is both the reference to the column, and an object - So after several attempts I guess…

new_seeds.rb

puts 'DEFAULT USERS'
user = User.find_or_create_by_email :username => ENV['ADMIN_NAME'].dup, :email => ENV['ADMIN_EMAIL'].dup,
:password => ENV['ADMIN_PASSWORD'].dup, :password_confirmation => ENV['ADMIN_PASSWORD'].dup
puts 'username: ' << user.username
user.add_role :admin

original_seeds.rb

puts 'DEFAULT USERS'
user = User.find_or_create_by_email :name => ENV['ADMIN_NAME'].dup, :email => ENV['ADMIN_EMAIL'].dup,
:password => ENV['ADMIN_PASSWORD'].dup, :password_confirmation => ENV['ADMIN_PASSWORD'].dup
puts 'user: ' << user.name
user.add_role :admin
user2 = User.find_or_

I would go for something like :

User.where(:email => ENV['ADMIN_EMAIL'].dup).first_or_create do |user|
user.username = ENV['ADMIN_NAME'].dup
email = ENV['ADMIN_EMAIL'].dup
password = ENV['ADMIN_PASSWORD'].dup
password_confirmation => ENV['ADMIN_PASSWORD'].dup
end

And the answer is! note the confution of the name method on bah,vs the value of username on bah!

puts 'ROLES'
YAML.load(ENV['ROLES']).each do |role|
Role.find_or_create_by_name({ :name => role }, :without_protection => true)
puts 'role: ' << role
end
puts 'DEFAULT USERS'

foo = User.find_or_create_by_email :username => ENV['ADMIN_NAME'].dup, :email => ENV['ADMIN_EMAIL'].dup, :password => ENV['ADMIN_PASSWORD'].dup, :password_confirmation => ENV['ADMIN_PASSWORD'].dup
puts 'username: ' << foo.username
foo.add_role :admin

bah = User.find_or_create_by_email :username => 'Mizpah', :email => 'mizpah@mmofish.com', :password => 'changeme', :password_confirmation => 'changeme'
puts 'username: ' << bah.username
bah.add_role :VIP