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Rake seed without validations failing

I'm trying to populate my database with seed data using rake db:seed but for some reason I keep getting this error. Note, I need to bypass validations checks.

01_user.rb
user = User.new([
  {id: 6, email: "admin@example.com"},
  {id: 7, email: "superadmin@example.com"}
])

user.save!(validate: false)

Error that I keep getting: 

$ bundle exec rake db:seed RAILS_ENV=test
rake aborted!
ArgumentError: When assigning attributes, you must pass a hash as an argument.

Any guidance on why this is happening and how to fix it?

Solution

  • You are passing an array of hashes to the new method of User model. You need to loop on each of these hashes instead:

    [
  {id: 6, email: "admin@example.com"},
  {id: 7, email: "superadmin@example.com"}
].each do |user_attributes|
  user = User.new(user_attributes)
  user.save!(validate: false)
end

    I don't think you can overwrite the id attribute though.