Heroku seed database with data not in seed.rb

Question

I have a Rails app and an AppKeys table. The AppKeys tables hold some configuration data that I do not want to expose. Currently, after pushing to Heroku, I need to run heroku run rails console and manually add the configuration data into the database.

I do not want to put the config data in seed.rb since the project is on Github.

I want to run git push heroku master and have it automatically seed the AppKeys table from a local ignored file.

Is there a way to automate this?

Answer 1

Looks like you're looking for release phase .

If you set a release process type in your Procfile, it will be used for every new release (deploys, config vars changes, ...) to run a one-off dyno with that command.
The new release won't be used until that command succeeds.