Can I pass an argument to rake db:seed?

Question

Part of my seeds.rb loads a lot of data into the database. I want to be able to selectively load this data. E.g.

$ rake db:seed

or

$rake db:seed[0]

would just load the necessary data to run the site, while

$ rake db:seed[1]

would load my big data file into the database as well. Is this possible? How can I make this happen? If not, can anyone think of a way to do what I'm trying to do?

See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/825748/how-do-i-pass-command-line-arguments-to-a-rake-task?rq=1 — Ellen Spertus, Jun 24 '14 at 00:46

score 59 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 22 '13 at 02:08

59

Rake arguments are painful to pass around, unfortunately (and db:seed doesn't pass its arguments through, regardless).

Your best bet is to use environment variables to pass your extra args through:

rake db:seed minimal=yes

and

unless ENV["minimal"]
  # do stuff

etc

answered Jan 22 '13 at 02:08

Nevir

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Beauty. Worked perfectly. Thanks. – Chris Jan 22 '13 at 02:19

Can I pass an argument to rake db:seed?

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