gistfile1.txt

# http://railscasts.com/episodes/126-populating-a-database
# http://github.com/ryanb/populator/tree/master
namespace :db do
  task :populate => :environment do
    require 'populator' # http://populator.rubyforge.org/
    require 'faker' # http://faker.rubyforge.org/rdoc/
    
    [User, Event, Link].each(&:delete_all)
    
    def random(model)
      ids = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.select_all("SELECT id FROM #{model.to_s.pluralize.downcase}")
      model.find(ids[rand(ids.length)]["id"].to_i) unless ids.blank?
    end
        
    User.populate 5 do |r|
      r.login = Faker::Internet.user_name
      r.email = Faker::Internet.email
    end
    
    Event.populate 20 do |r|
      r.user_id = random(User).id
      r.title = Faker::Lorem.sentence
      r.start_date = 2.months.ago..Time.now
      r.date_granularity = 1
      r.location = ['Chicago, IL', 'San Francisco, CA', 'Berlin, Germany', 'Paris, France']
    end
    
    LINKS = %w(
      http://google.com
      http://yahoo.com
      http://vimeo.com/1185346
      http://flickr.com/photos/almosteffortless/2669660449/
      http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3230/2670484476_0e2e25cf68.jpg?v=0
      http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3175/2669669461_af57049651_b.jpg
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-6KJxP5bbY
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muLIPWjks_M
    )
    
    Link.populate 100 do |r|
      r.user_id = random(User).id
      r.event_id = random(Event).id
      r.url = LINKS
    end
    
    Link.all.each do |r|
      r.parse_url
      r.save(false)
    end
    
  end
end