Question

I’m working on an application which uses data from db which has to be populated prior to the application being able to run. What I have to do is to populate few tables with few thousand rows but I’m not sure how I would do that in heroku because I have limited access to db for loading data.

What is the preferred way to do this?

Regards,
Johann

Answer 1

You may want to look into seeds, there’s also a Railscast. I’ve never used this before, so you may alternately want to…

Create a rake task to suit your specific need. That way you can add the task to your Rails application and run heroku rake mytask. Here’s a rake tutorial, and a Railscast on rake tasks to help get you started.