feat(seed): refactoring seeding functionality to be exported by the mongoose helper library and used as a gulp task, rather than the server bootstrap method

Author: lirantal

server/config/lib/app.js

@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ function startMongoose() {
   return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
     mongoose.loadModels()
       .then(mongoose.connect)
-      .then(mongoose.seed)
       .then(function(dbConnection) {
         resolve(dbConnection);
       })

server/config/lib/mongoose.js

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 /**
  * Module dependencies.
  */
-var config = require('../config'),
+const config = require('../config'),
   chalk = require('chalk'),
   path = require('path'),
   mongoose = require('mongoose'),
@@ -21,24 +21,28 @@ module.exports.loadModels = function() {
 
     resolve();
   });
-}
+};
 
 /**
  * seed the database with default data
  * @param {object} dbConnection the mongoose connection
  */
 module.exports.seed = function(dbConnection) {
   return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
-    if (config.seedDB && config.seedDB.seed) {
-      console.log(chalk.bold.red('Warning:  Database seeding is turned on'));
-      seed.start().then(function() {
-        resolve(dbConnection);
-      });
-    } else {
-      resolve(dbConnection);
+
+    if (!dbConnection) {
+      reject(new Error('dbConnection parameter is falsey'));
     }
+
+    dbConnection.connection.db.dropDatabase(function (error, result) {
+      if (error) {
+        reject(error);
+      }
+
+      resolve();
+    });
   });
-}
+};
 
 /**
  * Connect to the MongoDB server
@@ -66,7 +70,7 @@ module.exports.connect = function() {
         reject(err);
       })
   });
-}
+};
 
 /**
  * Disconnect from the MongoDB server

server/gulpfile.js

@@ -210,6 +210,16 @@ gulp.task('ava:test:integration', function() {
     });
 });
 
+gulp.task('seed:mongoose', function(done) {
+  const mongoose = require('./config/lib/mongoose');
+
+  mongoose.connect()
+    .then(mongoose.seed)
+    .then(function() {
+      done();
+  });
+});
+
 gulp.task('test:integration', function(done) {
   runSequence('env:test', 'server:bootstrap', 'ava:test:integration', done);
 });