How to run seed.rb file on Amazon ec2

Question

Recently I hosted my Ruby on Rails application on Amazon EC2 using Elastic Beanstalk. Everything works fine except my seeds.rb file. My seeds.rb file is not executed at the

Answer 1

In case you're here and the above solutions didn't work for you.

Apart from using the command provided in this answer above by benchwarmer:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/17232607/1216245

I had to run the seed command providing env vars for the master key and all rds settings.

bundle exec rake db:seed RAILS_ENV=production RAILS_MASTER_KEY= RDS_HOSTNAME= RDS_PASSWORD=<...> RDS_USERNAME=<...> RDS_DB_NAME=<...> RDS_PORT=<...>

And it worked, finally :)

You can check all this in the Configuration panel for your environment in the AWS console (dashboard).