Made fake automations database more realistic

[EvanHahn]

ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/NY-1260
towards https://linear.app/ghost/issue/NY-1265

Several improvements:

• Uses more realistic IDs across the board
• Revisions now have email_design_setting_id set
• Uses TEXT timestamps, matching what we do in the real database
• Attach more realistic Lexical data
• Uses prepared statements that are easier to read/edit
• API now exists to get a singleton, or create a new database from scratch

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Walkthrough

The temporary automations database module was refactored from hard-coded test fixtures to dynamically generated test data with deferred initialization. The schema now includes automation_runs and automation_run_steps tables with text-based timestamps. ID and timestamp generation logic was moved to runtime helpers, and seed data is now constructed programmatically via prepared statements, populating two automations with four actions each, revisions, and edge relationships. The export pattern changed from eager initialization to a cached lazy getter that enforces development environment access and throws IncorrectUsageError if accessed outside development mode.

Possibly related PRs

• TryGhost/Ghost#27733: Directly modifies the same temporary automations database module and exported interfaces.

Suggested reviewers

• cmraible

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title 'Made fake automations database more realistic' directly and clearly summarizes the main change: improving the realism of the temporary fake automations database used in development.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description provides detailed context about improvements made to the fake automations database, including specific enhancements like realistic IDs, TEXT timestamps, Lexical data, and API changes, all directly related to the changeset.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.
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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

ghost/core/core/server/services/automations/temporary-fake-database.js (1)

27-42: ⚡ Quick win

fakeLexical is missing standard Lexical node fields — may cause rendering failures in development.

The paragraph and text nodes omit several properties that Lexical (and Ghost's Lexical-to-HTML serializer) typically expects on every node. If any real Lexical processing code encounters this payload during development testing, it could throw or produce unexpected output.

Standard required fields:

• Paragraph node: direction, format, indent, version
• Text node: detail, format, mode, style, version

✨ Proposed fix with complete Lexical node shape

     const fakeLexical = JSON.stringify({
         root: {
             children: [{
                 type: 'paragraph',
+                direction: 'ltr',
+                format: '',
+                indent: 0,
+                version: 1,
                 children: [{
                     type: 'text',
-                    text: 'Lorem ipsum.'
+                    text: 'Lorem ipsum.',
+                    detail: 0,
+                    format: 0,
+                    mode: 'normal',
+                    style: '',
+                    version: 1
                 }]
             }],
             direction: null,
             format: '',
             indent: 0,
             type: 'root',
             version: 1
         }
     });

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@ghost/core/core/server/services/automations/temporary-fake-database.js`
around lines 27 - 42, fakeLexical currently builds Lexical JSON with paragraph
and text nodes missing required node fields which can break serializers; update
the fakeLexical object (the constant named fakeLexical) so the paragraph node
includes direction, format, indent, version and the text node includes detail,
format, mode, style, version (and keep existing type/text fields) to match
standard Lexical node shape used by Ghost's Lexical-to-HTML serializer; ensure
the final value remains JSON.stringify(...) of the fully populated root object.

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Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Nitpick comments:
In `@ghost/core/core/server/services/automations/temporary-fake-database.js`:
- Around line 27-42: fakeLexical currently builds Lexical JSON with paragraph
and text nodes missing required node fields which can break serializers; update
the fakeLexical object (the constant named fakeLexical) so the paragraph node
includes direction, format, indent, version and the text node includes detail,
format, mode, style, version (and keep existing type/text fields) to match
standard Lexical node shape used by Ghost's Lexical-to-HTML serializer; ensure
the final value remains JSON.stringify(...) of the fully populated root object.

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