Can I somehow execute my db/seeds.rb file from my rails app?

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explainer picture explainer · Mar 6, 2011 · Viewed 36.6k times · Source

I am building a demo, and I want to make it very easy for a non-technical person to set up and run the demo. I have built a seeds.rb file with lots of demo data in it. I want to be able to reset the rails app to a known state by providing an administrator-level action via a page link. I don't want to provide these non-tech demonstrators with a command line and rake, because they might shoot themselves in the foot.

I have looked into using load 'db/seeds.rb' within a method, but that doesn't quite do what I want. I know I am missing something, but what?

Answer

idlefingers picture idlefingers · Mar 6, 2011

You can call Rails.application.load_seed. That's all rake db:seed does.

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