Rails / Mina Gem Creating Custom task to do seeding

Question

I'm using the mina gem since 2 weeks and I've searched online to find a nice way to do my seeding in my rails staging.

The seed must be a task so it is not called every time a deploy is done.

What I already have is the following:

desc "Seed data to the database"
task :seed do
    queue "bundle exec rake db:seed RAILS_ENV=staging"
end

Do you think this is correct, I know for 100% that it works if I just type the command on the server.

Kind regards.

Answer 1

I first tried using verbose like

mina seed --verbose

This gave me the error:

Could not locate gemfile

So he could not reach the gemfile on the server so I had to do the following:

desc "Seed data to the database"
task :seed => :environment do
  queue "cd apps/default/current"
  queue "bundle exec rake db:seed RAILS_ENV=staging"
end

Answer 2

mina "rake[db:seed]" -v

-v param is optional (verbose).