Seed Dump is a Rails 4 plugin that adds a rake task named db:seed:dump.
It allows you to create seed data files from the existing data in your database.
You can also use Seed Dump from the Rails console. See below for usage examples.
Note: if you want to use Seed Dump with Rails 3 or earlier, use version 0.5.3.
Add it to your Gemfile with:
gem 'seed_dump'
Or install it by hand:
$ gem install seed_dump
Dump all data directly to db/seeds.rb:
$ rake db:seed:dump
Result:
Product.create!([
{category_id: 1, description: "Long Sleeve Shirt", name: "Long Sleeve Shirt"},
{category_id: 3, description: "Plain White Tee Shirt", name: "Plain T-Shirt"}
])
User.create!([
{id: 1, password: "123456", username: "test_1"},
{id: 2, password: "234567", username: "test_2"}
])
Dump only data from the users table and dump a maximum of 1 record:
$ rake db:seed:dump MODELS=User LIMIT=1
Result:
User.create!([
{id: 1, password: "123456", username: "test_1"}
])
Append to db/seeds.rb instead of overwriting it:
rake db:seed:dump APPEND=true
Use another output file instead of db/seeds.rb:
rake db:seed:dump FILE=db/seeds/users.rb
Exclude name and age from the dump:
rake db:seed:dump EXCLUDE=name,age
There are more options that can be set— see below for all of them.
Output a dump of all User records:
irb(main):001:0> puts SeedDump.dump(User)
User.create!([
{id: 1, password: "123456", username: "test_1"},
{id: 2, password: "234567", username: "test_2"}
])
Write the dump to a file:
irb(main):002:0> SeedDump.dump(User, file: 'db/seeds.rb')
Append the dump to a file:
irb(main):003:0> SeedDump.dump(User, file: 'db/seeds.rb', append: true)
Exclude name and age from the dump:
irb(main):004:0> SeedDump.dump(User, exclude: [:name, :age])
Options are specified as a Hash for the second argument.
Options are common to both the Rake task and the console, except where noted.
append: If set to true, append the data to the file instead of overwriting it. Default: false.
batch_size: Controls the number of records that are written to file at a given time. Default: 1000. If you're running out of memory when dumping, try decreasing this. If things are dumping too slow, trying increasing this.
exclude: Attributes to be excluded from the dump. By default id, created_at, and updated_at are excluded. Pass a comma-separated list to the Rake task (i.e. name,age) and an array on the console (i.e. [:name, :age]).
file: Write to the specified output file. The Rake task default is db/seeds.rb. The console returns the dump as a string by default.
import: If true, output will be in the format needed by the activerecord-import gem, rather than the default format. Default: false.
limit: Dump no more than this amount of data. Default: no limit. Rake task only. In the console just pass in an ActiveRecord::Relation with the appropriate limit (e.g. SeedDump.dump(User.limit(5))).
model[s]: Restrict the dump to the specified comma-separated list of models. Default: all models. If you are using a Rails engine you can dump a specific model by passing "EngineName::ModelName". Rake task only. Example: rake db:seed:dump MODELS="User, Position, Function"