a timocracy of one

Thanks to http://snippets.dzone.com/tag/fixtures. No warranties and no guarantees it’ll work on your full DB. I’m just using it for transferring around my starting data during dev.

Yes, I know part of this can be done with db:fixtures:load – but I don’t want to use ‘tests/fixtures’

namespace :db do
  namespace :YAML do
    desc 'Create YAML backup fixtures'
    task :backup => :environment do
      sql = "SELECT * FROM %s" 
      skip_tables = ["schema_info", "sessions"]
      ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection
      tables = ENV['FIXTURES'] ? ENV['FIXTURES'].split(/,/) : ActiveRecord::Base.connection.tables - skip_tables
      tables.each do |table_name|
        i = "000" 
        File.open("#{RAILS_ROOT}/db/fixtures/#{table_name}.yml", 'w') do |file|
          data = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.select_all(sql % table_name)
          file.write data.inject({}) { |hash, record|
            hash["#{table_name}_#{i.succ!}"] = record
            hash
          }.to_yaml
        end
      end
    end

    desc "Load db/fixtures in fixtures_load_order" 
    task :restore => :environment do
      ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection
      require 'active_record/fixtures'
      Fixtures.create_fixtures("db/fixtures", ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[:fixtures_load_order])
      puts "Loaded these fixtures: " + ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[:fixtures_load_order].collect { |f| f.to_s }.join(', ')
    end
  end
end

ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[:fixtures_load_order] = [
  :users, 
  :locations, 
  :reports, 
  :conditions
]