efficient bulk update rails database

Question

I\'m trying to build a rake utility that will update my database every so often.

This is the code I have so far:

namespace :utils do

  # utils:updat         


        

Answer 1

Use the database level utilities for high speed Luke!

Unfortunately, they're db specific. But they are fast For mysql, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html