RyanBerliner / rails-csv-seed

Ruby on Rails task to backup all database records into csv files, and a seeds file to import those same records (say, as another user after checkout from version control).

Rails CSV Seed

These files will allow you to backup your current database records into a csv files, and then run a database seed to import them.

How to use:

1. copy and paste seeds.rb contents into db/seeds.rb
2. place csv_backup.rake into lib/tasks/
3. run 'rails csv_backup' in the terminal. this will put all your db records into csv files (one for each table) in db/csv_backups/
4. to seed with your backed up data, run rails db:seed

Snippets taken from all over the internet, handy when you have complex relationships and a lot of data because you can take a snapshot, check it into version control, and then import or re-seed without worrying about validations. You could easily modify to allow different seed sets like a 'dev' seed, a 'presentation' seed, stuff like that.