How to implement bulk insert in Rails

Yeah we can implement using "ACTIVERECORD-IMPORT" library, in rails 3.x (It will not support for rails 2.x versions).

Just look at the following code snippets

Class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  ######## schema information about user ##########
    login
    user_name
    email
    address
    city
    state
    country
    zipcode
  ######## schema information ended here #########
  has_many :posts
  has_many :comments
end

Suppose if you want to store/save 5-10 users into database table, normally you can do the following way

test_name= "user_name"
10.each do |number|
  User.create!(:user_name => test_name + number,:login_name => "login"+number,..etc fields)
end

The above code works fine without any issues. Just think about if you want to save 1000 or 2000 records, that time the above code snippets will eat huge time to save the records. So avoiding/handle that huge time difference Ruby on Rails, We can use the library called "activerecord-import".

Now we can insert 1000/2000 records at one shot using activerecord-import library. Here is the small code snippet implementation for your reference

users = []
test_name= "user_name"
1000.each do |number|
  users << User.new(:user_name => test_name + number,:login_name => "login"+number,..etc fields)
end
User.import users

Thats it. In single shot your entire 1000 records inserted into your database.

Note: This library only will work on Rails 3.x versions only not 2.x versions, so keep it this point before your implementation.