Meteor User Seed

I have been trying to build a site with Meteor and have slowly started getting stuff working.

Nov 10, 20141 min read

have been trying to build a site with Meteor and have slowly started getting stuff working.

One of the ways to populate your development data has been with database seeding.

I wanted to link a user account with a document in one of my collections so I worked this out from the documentation.

You add users to the users collection this returns the userId for the new user which you capture in a variable that you use to insert the userId into your second collection.

if (Meteor.users.find().count() === 0) {
  seed1UserId = Accounts.createUser({
    username: 'lance',
    email: 'l@oo.com',
    password: '123456'
  });
  seed2UserId = Accounts.createUser({
    username: 'david',
    email: 'd@oo.com',
    password: '123456'
  });
  seed3UserId = Accounts.createUser({
    username: 'glenn',
    email: 'g@oo.com',
    password: '123456'
  });
  seed4UserId = Accounts.createUser({
    username: 'martin',
    email: 'm@oo.com',
    password: '123456'
  });
}

if (MasterList.find().count() === 0) {

  MasterList.insert({
    firstname: "Lance",
    lastname: "James",
    user\_id: seed1UserId
  });

  MasterList.insert({
    firstname: "David",
    lastname: "Cope"
    user\_id: seed2UserId
  });

  MasterList.insert({
    firstname: "Glenn",
    lastname: "Manner",
    user\_id: seed3UserId
  });

  MasterList.insert({
    firstname: "Martin",
    lastname: "Drone",
    user\_id: seed4UserId
  });
}

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