Rails - Separate Seeds Using Seedbank

Seedbank gives your Rails seed data a little structure. Create seeds for each environment, share seeds between environments and specify dependencies to load your seeds in order. All nicely integrated with simple rake tasks. This is how I quickly used it:

1.  Put in Gemfile:
gem "seedbank"

2. Install
$ bundle install

3. Create the specific seed file:
$ vi db/seeds/performance_translations.seeds.rb
translations = [
  ["r-high-0001","1-read high-generation"],
  ["r-high-0008","8-read high-generation"],
  ["r-high-0016","16-read high-generation"]
]
translations.each do |int, ext|
  PerformanceTranslation.find_or_create_by_internal(internal: int, external: ext)
end

4. Run via rake
$ rake db:seed:performance_translations

Schedule rake using cron on rvm environment

Little tricky to get this going. The key is knowing rvm environment.

$ rvm env --path
/auto/home3/delacs/.rvm/environments/ruby-2.0.0-p353@RailsDev

For rvm, basic command line tools like gem, rake and ruby are in the wrappers directory.

$ crontab -l
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
HOME=/auto/home3/delacs
RAILS_ENV=development

0 7 * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'source ~/.bash_profile' && cd $HOME/Documents/projects/monweb_management && $HOME/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.0.0-p353@RailsDev/rake perfdb:get_baselines >> $HOME/logs/db.import.log 2>&1

5 7 * * * /bin/bash -l -c 'source ~/.bash_profile' && cd $HOME/Documents/projects/monweb_management && $HOME/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.0.0-p353@RailsDev/rake perfdb:get_published_runs  >> $HOME/logs/db.import.log 2>&1