namespace :db do desc <<-EOS Loads seed data for the current environment. It will look for ruby seed files in /db/fixtures/ and /db/fixtures//. By default it will load any ruby files found. You can filter the files loaded by passing in the SEED environment variable with a comma-delimited list of patterns to include. Any files not matching the pattern will not be loaded. You can also change the directory where seed files are looked for with the FIXTURE_PATH environment variable. Examples: # default, to load all seed files for the current environment rake db:seed # to load seed files matching orders or customers rake db:seed SEED=orders,customers # to load files from RAILS_ROOT/features/fixtures rake db:seed FIXTURE_PATH=features/fixtures EOS task :seed => :environment do fixture_path = ENV["FIXTURE_PATH"] ? ENV["FIXTURE_PATH"] : "db/fixtures" global_seed_files = Dir[File.join(RAILS_ROOT, fixture_path, '*.rb')].sort env_specific_seed_files = Dir[File.join(RAILS_ROOT, fixture_path, RAILS_ENV, '*.rb')] potential_seed_files = (global_seed_files + env_specific_seed_files).uniq if ENV["SEED"] filter = ENV["SEED"].gsub(/,/, "|") potential_seed_files.reject!{ |file| true unless file =~ /#{filter}/ } puts "\n == Filtering seed files against regexp: #{filter}" end potential_seed_files.each do |file| pretty_name = file.sub("#{RAILS_ROOT}/", "") puts "\n== Seed from #{pretty_name} " load file end end end