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  • 🌸What is Petal Pro?
  • πŸ’‘Changelog
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  • Guides
    • πŸš€Creating a web app from start to finish
    • 🌎Deploy to Fly.io
    • πŸ’³Adding a subscription
    • πŸ”’Creating Your Own API
    • πŸ”ŒContent Editor - adding your own plug-in
  • πŸ‘©β€πŸ³Recipes
    • πŸ’How to apply a recipe with git cherry pick
    • #️⃣UUIDs
    • ✍️First/Last name
    • πŸ—ΊοΈGoogle Maps
    • Password Hashing for Windows
  • Fundamentals
    • πŸ’ΏInstallation
    • πŸ“‚Folder structure
    • πŸ—ƒοΈIncluded Pages
    • πŸ˜€Users & Authentication
    • 🏒Organizations & Multitenancy
    • πŸ’³Stripe billing
    • Blog/CMS
    • πŸ””User Notifications
    • 🧊Components
    • ⬛Dark mode
    • 🎨Branding
    • 🌱Seeding
    • πŸ“„Layouts & Menus
    • πŸ–ΌοΈImage uploads
    • πŸ‘₯Impersonation
    • πŸ› οΈBackground Tasks and Jobs
    • πŸ”§Util & Helpers
    • πŸ“§Emails
    • πŸͺJavascript Hooks
    • πŸ“šExtra Hex Libraries
    • πŸ—οΈGenerators
    • πŸ—£οΈTranslations
    • πŸ–οΈContributing
    • πŸ›«Deployment
    • πŸ›‘οΈTesting
    • πŸ”’REST API
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  1. Fundamentals

Seeding

Seeding means populating the database with records. We do this in development to show what the web app looks like with data.

We do this in one script file: seeds.exs

seeds.exs
alias PetalPro.Accounts.User
alias PetalPro.Accounts.UserSeeder
alias PetalPro.Accounts.UserToken
alias PetalPro.Accounts.UserTOTP
alias PetalPro.Files.FileSeeder
alias PetalPro.Logs.Log
alias PetalPro.Orgs.Invitation
alias PetalPro.Orgs.Membership
alias PetalPro.Orgs.Org
alias PetalPro.Orgs.OrgSeeder
alias PetalPro.Posts.Post
alias PetalPro.Posts.PostSeeder

if Mix.env() == :dev do
  PetalPro.Repo.delete_all(Log)
  PetalPro.Repo.delete_all(UserTOTP)
  PetalPro.Repo.delete_all(Invitation)
  PetalPro.Repo.delete_all(Membership)
  PetalPro.Repo.delete_all(Org)
  PetalPro.Repo.delete_all(UserToken)
  PetalPro.Repo.delete_all(User)
  PetalPro.Repo.delete_all(Post)

  admin = UserSeeder.admin()

  normal_user =
    UserSeeder.normal_user(%{
      email: "user@example.com",
      name: "Sarah Cunningham",
      password: "password",
      confirmed_at: Timex.to_naive_datetime(DateTime.utc_now())
    })

  UserSeeder.fake_subscription(normal_user)

  org = OrgSeeder.random_org(admin)
  PetalPro.Orgs.create_invitation(org, %{email: normal_user.email})

  UserSeeder.random_users(20)

  FileSeeder.create_files(admin)
  PostSeeder.create_posts(admin)
end

We use the faker library for randomizing data:

def random_user_attributes(attrs \\ %{}) do
  Enum.into(attrs, %{
    name: Faker.Person.En.first_name() <> " " <> Faker.Person.En.last_name(),
    email: unique_user_email()
  })
end

Seeds should be regularly updated with any new tables you create. This allows you to better test and develop your app.

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