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Part of my seeds.rb loads a lot of data into the database. I want to be able to selectively load this data. E.g.
$ rake db:seed
or
$rake db:seed[0]
would just load the necessary data to run the site, while
$ rake db:seed[1]
would load my big data file into the database as well. Is this possible? How can I make this happen? If not, can anyone think of a way to do what I'm trying to do?
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Rails seed files are a useful way of populating a database with the initial data needed for a Rails project. The Rails db/seeds. rb file contains plain Ruby code and can be run with the Rails-default rails db:seed task.
The seeds.rb file is where the seed data is stored, but you need to run the appropriate rake task to actually use the seed data. Using rake -T in your project directory shows information about following tasks: rake db:seed. Load the seed data from db/seeds.rb.
Rake arguments are painful to pass around, unfortunately (and db:seed doesn't pass its arguments through, regardless).
Your best bet is to use environment variables to pass your extra args through:
rake db:seed minimal=yes and
unless ENV["minimal"] # do stuff etc
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