ActiveRecord create: pass in an array of attributes

Question

I would like to know if there is a Rails way to create multiple records by passing in an array of attributes.

For instance, instead of

MyModel.create         


        

Answer 1

At the time the question was asked ActiveRecord did not have any built-in features to efficiently insert multiple records at once. As of today Rails 6 is the current stable release and it comes with Model#insert_all! which is a method for bulk inserting.

You'll find the documentation for it here https://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Persistence/ClassMethods.html#method-i-insert_all-21

It is worth to mention that Rails 6 also implements Model#upsert_all! which efficiently inserts or updates in case the the record exists.