Hi all, Is there a way to run migrations without getting the seeds also run? Actually, I suppose I should check – is that normal behavior? As it is what I’m seeing. In any case I’ve tried rake -T seed/seeds/migrate to see if there are any tasks already defined and I don’t see any.. and also trie…

To answer my own question.. after some more examination, it seems this is done in lib/tasks/db.rake. Usually I think of seeds as run when you first install your application and never again, because you might customize the data and the seeds would put back stuff you modified or deleted. However, it…

What’s coming back, that you don’t want?

The seeds will reset the security settings of the staff category, but only if it still exists. If it detects that it had created the category in the past, but it’s not there anymore, it won’t recreate it (ever).

Migrating without getting seeds loaded?

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andrewroth (Andrew Roth) July 27, 2016, 2:57am 4

I thought the staff category which we had removed was going to come back when I saw the output of migrate (which runs seeds), but I didn’t actually check. So in actual fact, nothing.

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Migrating without getting seeds loaded?

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