Fixed Data Sets

rubyonrails-talk
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Hello,

I apologize in advance if this has been brought up previously, I can't seem to find anything on it.

I was wondering whether I should be using migrations or something else for a fixed set of data that would be changed over time.

Here's an example:

I'm about to set a model for languages that I originally preset (i.e. English, French, etc.) but I imagine that I would be adding on to this list after deploying. How do I ensure that I would be able to do this without any potential problems in the future.

Thanks in advance.

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Instead of migration you could use fixtures. There is a plugin for
seeding data named seed-fu, http://intridea.com/2008/4/20/seed-fu-simple-seed-data-for-rails , but I have never used it on one of my project.

good luck. mike

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Matthew