Update sample-data loading instructions to use a script (because we need to workaround fixtures not knowing how to load data from the filesystem for RawEmails)

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.md b/doc/INSTALL.md
index e6f7caec7..eb0a77dd9 100644
--- a/doc/INSTALL.md
+++ b/doc/INSTALL.md
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ If you want some dummy data to play with, you can try loading the
 fixtures that the test suite uses into your development database.  You
 can do this with:
 
-    rake spec:db:fixtures:load
+    ./script/load-sample-data
 
 Next we need to create the index for the search engine (Xapian):
 
diff --git a/script/load-sample-data b/script/load-sample-data
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..0521ef849
--- /dev/null
+++ b/script/load-sample-data
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This script loads spec fixtures, but also needs to do a hack around
+# the fact that the fixtures aren't aware of the fact that RawEmails
+# have a filesystem representation of their contents
+
+LOC=`dirname $0`
+rake --silent spec:db:fixtures:load
+"$LOC/runner" 'puts File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/spec/spec_helper"); require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/spec/spec_helper"); RawEmail.all().each {|email|  email.data = load_file_fixture("useless_raw_email.email")}'
+
+
+echo "Loaded fixtures."
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