# mbleigh/seed-fu

Advanced seed data handling for Rails, combining the best practices of several methods together.

Repository: https://github.com/mbleigh/seed-fu
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/seed-fu
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2022-08-09T06:39:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6728, "days_push": 1485, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1233, forks 155 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:04.625917+00:00)

## What it is
Seed Fu is a Ruby gem that provides robust seed data handling for Rails applications using Active Record. It allows declarative, idempotent insertion and updating of seed records via fixture files and rake tasks.

## Use cases
- seed a rails database with initial records
- keep seed data updated across environments
- insert default users and reference data idempotently
- manage per-environment seed fixtures
- load seed data without a full rails app

## When to choose
- you use Rails or Active Record and need repeatable, updatable seed data
- you want seeds that can be re-run safely without duplicating records
- you need environment-specific seed fixtures

## When to avoid
- you are not using Active Record or Ruby
- you need a modern, actively developed seeding solution for the latest Rails versions
- you prefer plain Rails built-in db/seeds.rb for simple cases

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: database, orm
- domain: databases, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: ruby, jvm
- tags: rails, seed-data, active-record, database-seeding, fixtures

## Member repositories
- mbleigh/seed-fu (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:04.625917+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:22:17.042267+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mbleigh/seed-fu (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:04.625917+00:00, sha 063a50af203b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.