rroblak/seed_dump

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1414 stars · 222 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Seed Dump is a Rails plugin that adds a rake task (db:seed:dump) and console API to export existing database records into db/seeds.rb seed files. It supports filtering models, limiting records, excluding attributes, appending, and custom output files.

Use cases

• dump existing database rows into db/seeds.rb
• generate Rails seed data from a live database
• export only certain models or a limited number of records to seeds
• exclude sensitive or irrelevant attributes from seed dumps
• create seed files from the Rails console for an ActiveRecord relation

When to choose

• you maintain a Rails app and need reproducible seed data from real database content
• you want a quick rake task or console one-liner to generate seeds.rb
• you need fine-grained control over which models, records, and attributes are dumped

When to avoid

• you are not using Rails or ActiveRecord
• you need to dump data to formats other than Ruby seed files (e.g., SQL, JSON, YAML)
• you need database-agnostic seeding outside the Rails ecosystem

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

database developer-tools cli developer-tools web-development databases ruby cli rails seed-data rake-task activerecord database-dump

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