Docs: CMS Seeds

Overview

Sofa allows you to build your entire site using files instead of updating the database via the admin area. This significantly speeds up initial content population. Go to the initializer and set this to enable seeds in development environment: config.enable_seeds = Rails.env.development?. You may also change the folder that is used to store seeds by changing config.seeds_path, which defaults to '/db/cms_seeds'.

If you run rails g comfy:cms you should find an example set of seeds in /db/cms_seeds.

When seeds are enabled, the database is updated with each request, but only if seed file is newer than the database entry. Database is also purged of items that are not defined in seeds. So be careful not to clear out your database by mistake.

Importing into Database

To load seeds into the database just run this rake task:

rake 'comfy:cms_seeds:import[folder-name, site-identifier]'

First argument indicates folder seeds are in and second is the Site identifier you have defined in the database.

Exporting into Files

If you need to dump database contents into seed files run:

rake 'comfy:cms_seeds:export[site-identifier, folder-name]'

This will create folder-name folder in the directory defined by config.fixtures_path and dump all content from site-identifier Site.

Using CMS Seeds in tests

All you need to do is create a rake task like this:

namespace :test do
  task :prepare do
    Comfy::Cms::Site.create!(identifier: 'site-identifier', hostname: 'localhost')
    Rake::Task['comfy:cms_seeds:import[folder-name, site-identifier]'].invoke
  end
end

Now, when runnining rake or rake:test CMS seeds will be loaded in.