Adding a custom seed file

Question

I want to populate a new feature with dummy data, but don\'t want to use the db/seeds.rb file as it already has seeds other data irrelevant for this feature.

To run

Answer 1

I tried out zeantsoi's answer but it didn't give me what I wanted, it did all files in a directory. Hacked away at it and got this.

namespace :db do
  namespace :seed do
    task :single => :environment do
      filename = Dir[File.join(Rails.root, 'db', 'seeds', "#{ENV['SEED']}.seeds.rb")][0]
      puts "Seeding #{filename}..."
      load(filename) if File.exist?(filename)
    end
  end
end

And to use this do the following:

rake db:seed:single SEED=

This will look in the Rails.root/db/seeds folder for a file name without the .seeds.rb (it adds those for you).

Working example:

rake db:seed:single SEED=my_custom_seed

The above would seed the Rails.root/db/seeds/my_custom_seed.seeds.rb file