How to use seed.rb to selectively populate development and/or production databases?

Question

I am using seed.rb to populate both my development and production database. I usually populate the first with dummy data and the latter with the real minimal data that my app ne

Answer 1

seeds.rb is just a plain ruby file, so there are several ways you could approach this. How about a case statement?

# do common stuff here

case Rails.env
when "development"
   ...
when "production"
   ...
end