I’ve got a client that I’m doing an import for. They’re using SSO, which will supply avatars, but of course those get populated only when someone logs in. I noticed client.sync_sso and it appears to do just what I need. I think I’d like to do this from the API, but rails console would be fine too. I…

That sounds like what I’m looking for @Falco . Are you saying that I should create all the users from the API before I run the import script that creates the users, or that I should somehow use an API call in the import script to create the user? Can you point me to some code?

I would create the users during the import, and set the avatar at import time also. You need to ask for a dump that also contains avatars urls.

I believe I have the URLs. Since avatars get populated when someone logs in, I was thinking that I could use the API (or console) to suck them down from SSO. The importers I’d looked at were uploading the avatars (which I don’t have), but now I see that I can pass a avatar_url to create_users, which…

How to seed local database with SSO user data

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Falco (Falco) 21 Noviembre, 2016 19:16 2

I have done exactly this.

What I did was getting the user database, and created all the users using the API.

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How to seed local database with SSO user data

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