Rails - Populate test database with development data

Question

Is there any trivial way to copy the data from developmenet database into the test one? I know theres a way to copy schema and recreate database, but is there any rake task to p

Answer 1

An alternative method if you use seeds (db/seeds.rb)

First, add a rake task for example to lib/tasks/test_seed.rake with this code:

namespace :db do
  namespace :test do
    task :prepare => :environment do
        Rake::Task["db:seed"].invoke
    end
  end
end

Then whenever you changed your database structure / content through migration and seeds, you can run

rake:db:test:prepare

To copy the schema and seed data.

So the complete steps would be:

rake db:migrate
rake db:seed
rake db:test:prepare