I've been wanting to do some work for a while on the UI for our performance monitoring system. But the way the performance monitoring system works, it's difficult to create fake data for development.
The solution? Jump into a Rails console on our staging server and dump a few choice records to YAML files. It's an easy trick:
item = MyItem.find(...)
File.open("sample_item.yml", "w"){ |o| o.write(item.to_yaml) }
Now you can transfer the file to your computer and load the yaml into a model like so:
item = YAML.load_file("path/to/sample_item.yml")
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Starr Horne
Starr Horne is a Rubyist and Chief JavaScripter at Honeybadger.io. When she's not neck-deep in other people's bugs, she enjoys making furniture with traditional hand-tools, reading history and brewing beer in her garage in Seattle.
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