# Adding default sets of topics, categories and users to a new Discourse

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [4월 18, 2016, 4:47오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-default-sets-of-topics-categories-and-users-to-a-new-discourse/42733 "2016-04-18T16:47:38Z")\
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Sorry, I checked the `seed_data` which is a plain hash and only used for overriding the admin starter guide. It’s not really useful in your case.

But a rake task is still worthing considered but you have to prevent it from running twice (maybe define a site setting for checking this). In this way, you would end up with a configurable ruby script as your need/create.

Task `db.rake` may be a good start.

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