January 20, 2011

Seedbed -- A better way to manage seed data.

By Spencer Markowski

Seedbed is an easier way to manage development data and store that data in a repository friendly format. Seedbed automatically generates rake tasks for all available data in the db/seeds folder or you can just run rake db:seed to invoke all seeds specified by 'plant'

gem install seedbed

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#seed.rb
plant :admin_users

#block syntax
plant :about_us do |seed| 
  seed.path = "db/seeds/some_folder" 
end