Ruby On Rails: way to create different seeds file for environments

Question

How can one make the task rake db:seed to use different seeds.rb file on production and development?

edit: any better strategy will be welcome

Answer 1

I like to implement all seeds inside one seed.rb file and then just separate the environments inside.

if Rails.env.production? 
  State.create(state: "California", state_abbr: "CA")
  State.create(state: "North Dakota", state_abbr: "ND")
end

if Rails.env.development?
  for 1..25
    Orders.create(order_num: Faker::Number:number(8), order_date: Faker::Business.credit_card_expiry_date)
  end
end

That way you do not need to cast the RAILS_ENV property on your rake task, or manage multiple files. You also can include Rails.env.test?, but I personally let RSPEC take care of the testing data.