Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote in post #961588: > Then you don't want to seed the database -- seeding is only for > relatively static data (such as state and country names) that needs to > be loaded before you ever run the application. It sounds to me like you > simply want to read the XML files and build INSERT queries. And unless > I'm badly mistaken, you already know how to do that.
Hi Marnen. Thank you for the quick reply. Honestly, I've never worked with xml files like this. I grabbed the code for the ruby program from a lot of different sources and kind of crammed it all together to see what would work best. I messed up a few times and destroyed some xml files in to process (thank goodness for backups!). I can output all the xml at text to the screen... But that's about the extent of my abilities. I'm not sure how to turn them into objects to insert into a database. > You may need a cron job or some such to parse new files as they come in. Thanks for the tip! I'll look into doing that. > What's the problem, exactly? There's nothing here that you don't know. Thanks for the confidence, but I don't have the same confidence in myself. There's a lot I don't know about Ruby and Rails, and I'm still trying to learn. I can create a database in Rails. I know how to do that. But I don't know how to get this text from the xml files turned into objects to send to the database. Any help on how to do that would be awesome. Thanks again Marnen! --Matt Royer -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
