Question

I’m using rspec for testing w my rails 3 app. I need to seed the database before the tests start. How can I seed the database with the following:

/db/seeds.rb

["Admin", "Member"].each do |role_name|
  Role.find_or_create_by_name(role_name)
end

Thanks

Answer 1

Try, something like this

rake db:seed RAILS_ENV=test

You can get a list of all rake commands doing

rake -T

If this is test data, you may want to look at putting it into fixtures which will be loaded on the start of the tests.