How to seed the production database using the Capistrano gem?

Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3.0.9 and I would like to seed the production database in order to add some record without re-building all the database (that is, with

Answer 1

Try adding something like this in your deploy.rb:

namespace :deploy do
  desc "reload the database with seed data"
  task :seed do
    run "cd #{current_path}; rake db:seed RAILS_ENV=#{rails_env}"
  end
end