Performance Guide to create 100k records in less than 3s using Ruby on Rails

When working on large-scale projects, quickly creating test data or dummy data can be crucial. In this article, we will explore different methods to efficiently create 100,000 records in Ruby on Rails.

Data Set Overview

For today's benchmark, we will start with the Postgres database used in my previous article:

# db/schema.rb
create_table "accounts", force: :cascade do |t|
  t.string "first_name"
  t.string "last_name"
  t.string "phone"
  t.string "email"
  t.string "role"
end

By the way, if you haven't read my previous article …

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