How do you call db:seed on AWS Elastic Beanstalk apps?

Question

I know that you can run tasks as part of each deploy, but I only want to bootstrap the database once.

Answer 1

It's a while since the question was asked, so perhaps you've figured it out. Anyway, you can add a file called (for instance) seed.config in the .beanstalk folder. Enter something like this and your seeds will be run:

container_commands:
  01seed:
    command: rake db:seed