INSERT multiple records using ruby on rails active record

Question

The create method takes also an array as parameter.

VoteRecord.create(
  [
    { :prospect_id => prospect.id, :state => "OH", :election_type => "GE", :election => "2011-11-08", :party => row[82], :participate => participated(row[82]) },
    { :prospect_id => prospect.id, :state => "OH", :election_type => "PR", :election => "2011-09-13", :party => row[81], :participate => participated(row[81]) }
    ...
  ]
)

However, this still executes one SQL query per entry instead of a single SQL query. It is more efficent, because it only has to create a single activerecord object under the hood.

If you are inserting many rows from the same client at the same time,
use INSERT statements with multiple VALUES lists to insert several
rows at a time. This is considerably faster (many times faster in some
cases) than using separate single-row INSERT statements. If you are
adding data to a nonempty table, you can tune the
bulk_insert_buffer_size variable to make data insertion even faster.
See Section 5.1.3, “Server System Variables”.

From the mysql page (but I guess it should be the same for other dbs)

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