So it’s been a little while since I’ve written a post, but that’s how this blog goes. Sometimes I write lots of stuff, and sometimes I write nothing at all.
One of the things I wanted to do with the new blog is be a little bit “open source” about the projects I’m working on. Not so much sharing all the code of the projects, but sharing little bits and pieces of interesting tidbits I find throughout my net travels.
One such bit and piece that I found recently is the seed-fu plugin. This is a plugin for Ruby on Rails that allows you to, in a very YAML-like way, feed data into your application’s database with simple rake commands. What’s the benefit of this? Well, during development, it makes it extremely easy to wreck up your database and then re-populate it with some initial data.
While there are definitely other ways this could be done, seed-fu fit my needs at the moment, so I used it. There are a bunch of other Ruby on Rails plugins that I use, but I’ll try to talk about them when I use them, and not go back through what I’ve used just for the sake of listing them.