I found that my Model.create! statements were taking a very long time to run when I added a large number of records at once. Looked at ActiveRecord-Import but
Model.create!
You can also use the activerecord-insert_many gem. Just make an array of objects!
events = [{name: "Movie Night", time: "10:00"}, {name: "Tutoring", time: "7:00"}, ...] Event.insert_many(events)