I wanted to write a project using ActiveRecord and that morphed into wanting the database rake tasks as well. This project is where I stopped and posted to use as a starting point for such projects.

I don't make any claims that this is correct, good, the best, or anything like that. The Rakefile mostly came from this response on StackOverflow.

The fd.rb was cobbled together from various suggestions on web sites.

This is using PostgreSQL but any database that ActiveRecord supports should work.

1. Clone the repository
2. Install Postgres
3. Create a user in Postgres
4. bundle install
5. rake db:create
6. rake db:migrate
7. ./fd.rb
8. psql -c 'select * from files;' files_development

 id |   path    |         created_at         |         updated_at         
----+-----------+----------------------------+----------------------------
  1 | Hobgoblin | 2022-03-30 18:16:36.509568 | 2022-03-30 18:16:36.509568
(1 row)