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Seed is a JavaScript interpreter and a library of the GNOME project.

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How can I use FactoryBot in db/seeds?

Is it possible to do this? If so, how can you do it? Note: FactoryBot was previously named FactoryGirl
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Seeding users with Devise in Ruby on Rails

In my development and test environments, I want to seed the database with a bunch of users. I'm using Ruby on Rails v3.2.8 and the latest Devise. So I added this line in my db/seeds.rb file: User.create(email: 'test@example.com',…
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What's the benefit of seeding a random number generator with only prime numbers?

While conducting some experiments in Java, my project supervisor reminded me to seed each iteration of the experiment with a different number. He also mentioned that I should use prime numbers for the seed values. This got me thinking — why primes?…
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How to start writing Gnome Shell extensions

I have found it's very hard to find documentation about Gnome Shell Extensions. I found some bits on Gnome Wiki (and it's first-level links), but it's not much: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions The problem here is GJS and it's bindings.…
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Seeding file uploads with CarrierWave, Rails 3

I'm trying to seed a database in Rails 3 with images using CarrierWave, however nothing I try seems to work short of having to upload them all by hand. pi = ProductImage.new(:product => product) pi.image = File.open(File.join(Rails.root,…
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How to create SecurityStamp for AspNetUser in ASP .NET MVC 5

When I create user by Register action whe application is running the application user gets SecurityStamp. When I add user by: if (!context.Users.Any()) { System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("INSIDE"); var hasher = new…
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Why is seeding the random generator not stable between versions of Python?

I am trying to reproduce a random sequence from python's random.random() on a different system with a different python3 version installed. This should be easy as the documentation says: Most of the random module’s algorithms and seeding functions…
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Python's random: What happens if I don't use seed(someValue)?

a)In this case does the random number generator uses the system's clock (making the seed change) on each run? b)Is the seed used to generate the pseudo-random values of expovariate(lambda)?
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How to get current seed from C++ rand()?

I generate a few thousand object in my program based on the C++ rand() function. Keeping them in the memory would be exhaustive. Is there a way to copy the CURRENT seed of rand() at any given time? This would give me the opportunity to store ONLY…
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How to seed data when using Model First approach?

So I am learning MVC3 and EF4. I tried the code first method but it was too confusing for me.. I can create the classes no problem, but the hard part comes when dealing with foreign keys and the relationships between each other. But I've gone with…
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Does every machine generate same result of random number by using the same seed?

I'm current stuck in the random generator. The requirement specification shows a sample like this: Random rand = new Random(3412); The rand result is not directly given out, but used for other performance. I'd written the same code as above to…
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Execute sql script inside seed.rb in rails3

I want to execute this sql script inside my seed.rb LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/home/list-38.csv' INTO TABLE list FIELDS TERMINATED BY ':' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' (email,name,password); I checked this link but unable to figure out the solution.So…
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Rails: Make this rake task aware that it is in the test environment

I have the following rake task defined in my lib/tasks folder: namespace :db do namespace :test do task :prepare => :environment do Rake::Task["db:seed"].invoke end end end Now, what this does is seed the test DB when I run rake…
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Independent instances of 'random'

The below code attempts to illustrate what I want. I basically want two instances of "random" that operate independently of each other. I want to seed "random" within one class without affecting "random" in another class. How can I do that? class…
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Using Paperclip within seeds.rb

Let's says I have the following entry in my seeds.rb file : Image.create(:id => 52, :asset_file_name => "somefile.jpg", :asset_file_size => 101668, :asset_content_type => "image/jpeg", :product_id => 52) If I seed it, it tries to process the image…
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