I have a db/seeds.rb file that I want to load, but while the rest of the seeds file works fine, nothing is ever populated in :users. I just fails silently, so I can't figure out what exactly is causing the problem.
I have authlogic installed into the user.rb model with acts_as_authentic. I'm sure that's part of the problem, but I'm not sure that manually turning it off each time I run the db:seed task is the right thing to do.
Has anyone else seen this behavior, and how can I work around it?
Hard to say without seeing the seeds file, but, this generally happens when it fails the validation. Try using save! instead of save. That will cause a stacktrace which will let you know what was missed.
Darian Shimy
This was exactly what I needed. Adding:
User.find_or_create_by_email( #stuff ).save! with the right data showed me which validations were failing, and I was able to fix them. All is now right with the world.
As an added bonus, authlogic is now properly populating the password fields from cleartext passwords, so I don't even need to pre-populate :crypted_password anymore. Woohoo!
Thanks for the timely help.