Tasks to seed and delete Neo4j database

[cheerfulstoic]

Originally from @dpisarewski in this issue:

neo4jrb/activegraph#793 (comment)

CC @jessmartin and @framallo

[andrewhavens]

It would be nice to have the same rake db:seed command so you don't have to remember the neo4j namespace.

[cheerfulstoic]

I can see that, but what about when somebody is using both Neo4j.rb and ActiveRecord?

[andrewhavens]

ActiveRecord already defines the rake db:seed task to load the db/seed.rb file. So when using both AR and Neo4j, you don't have to do anything. It's only when AR is not being used that the rake task is missing. Simply define the db:seed task to work the same way (load the db/seed.rb file) and there is no issue using/not using AR.

[cheerfulstoic]

Ah, fair point! ;)

[shobee]

Since this issue is still open, here is a quick solution that works for me:

namespace :neo4j do
  desc "Load the seed data from db/seeds.rb"
  task :seed => [:environment] do
    Rails.application.load_seed
  end
end

[jktzes]

As far as I know, the seedbank gem, which does not depend on ActiveRecord, can be a good complement. It provides the same rake db:seed you asked.