How to seed the production database using the Capistrano gem?

Question

I am using Ruby on Rails 3.0.9 and I would like to seed the production database in order to add some record without re-building all the database (that is, with

Answer 1

Using Capistrano 3, Rails 4, and SeedMigrations, I created a Capistrano seed.rb task under /lib/capistrano/tasks:

namespace :deploy do
  desc 'Runs rake db:seed for SeedMigrations data'
  task :seed => [:set_rails_env] do
    on primary fetch(:migration_role) do
      within release_path do
        with rails_env: fetch(:rails_env) do
          execute :rake, "db:seed"
        end
      end
    end
  end

  after 'deploy:migrate', 'deploy:seed'
end

My seed migrations are now completely separate from my schema migrations, and ran following the db:migrate process. What a joy! :)