Reset the database (purge all), then seed a database

Question

Is there a rake command to wipe out the data in the database tables?

How do I create a db:seed script to pre-fill data to my tables?

Answer 1

on Rails 6 you can now do something like

rake db:seed:replant This Truncates tables of each database for current environment and loads the seeds

https://blog.saeloun.com/2019/09/30/rails-6-adds-db-seed-replant-task-and-db-truncate_all.html

$ rails db:seed:replant --trace
** Invoke db:seed:replant (first_time)
** Invoke db:load_config (first_time)
** Invoke environment (first_time)
** Execute environment
** Execute db:load_config
** Invoke db:truncate_all (first_time)
** Invoke db:load_config
** Invoke db:check_protected_environments (first_time)
** Invoke db:load_config
** Execute db:check_protected_environments
** Execute db:truncate_all
** Invoke db:seed (first_time)
** Invoke db:load_config
** Execute db:seed
** Invoke db:abort_if_pending_migrations (first_time)
** Invoke db:load_config
** Execute db:abort_if_pending_migrations
** Execute db:seed:replant