Cannot seed data in production using heroku

Question

I had posted this question before but I haven't got any answers that solved my problem. Therefore, I am reposting this question.

I am using heroku to deploy my rails app. I am trying to seed some data in the production by running the command heroku run rake db:seed. However, the command is not working. I am not able to seed files in production. The seeds.rb file is given below.

#This file should contain all the record creation needed to seed the database with its default values.
#The data can then be loaded with the rake db:seed (or created alongside the db with db:setup).

#Examples:

  #cities = City.create([{ name: 'Chicago' }, { name: 'Copenhagen' }])
  #Mayor.create(name: 'Emanuel', city: cities.first)

#end


    5.times do              
    Scoreboard.create!(name_of_scoreboard: "scoreboard_abc",
                      name_of_organization: "abcdef",
                      name_of_activity: "ghijklmn",
                      user_id: 1,
                      states: "state",
                      country: "state",
                      cities: "state")
    end

$ heroku run rake db:seed Running rake db:seed on ⬢ app... up, run.4751 ActiveRecord::SchemaMigration Load (2.0ms) SELECT "schema_migrations".* FROM "schema_migrations"

I run heroku restart but the objects aren't seeded in the production database. I have tried seeding this file in development and it works perfectly. I am not sure what's wrong.

The heroku logs -t file is given below.

2016-06-22T00:50:58.882699+00:00 heroku[api]: Starting process with command `bundle exec rake db:seed` by *******@gmail.com
2016-06-22T00:51:07.986301+00:00 heroku[run.1041]: Awaiting client
2016-06-22T00:51:08.026539+00:00 heroku[run.1041]: Starting process with command `bundle exec rake db:seed`
2016-06-22T00:51:08.157630+00:00 heroku[run.1041]: State changed from starting to up
2016-06-22T00:51:12.891248+00:00 heroku[run.1041]: State changed from up to complete
2016-06-22T00:51:12.881329+00:00 heroku[run.1041]: Process exited with status 0

I have the database.yml file and seeds.rb files as part of gitignore. I am not sure if that might be the cause of the problem. I am pretty sure its not.

Answer 1

seeds.rb should be in the repository in order for rails to seed it. If there is no seeds.rb , rails doesn't complain that the file is missing, instead it just completes the rake db:seed task with out any error.

So make sure you remove the seeds.rb from the .gitignore , add it to the git with git add --force db/seeds.rb and git push it to the repository.