# Rake db task

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-db-task/138623>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 26, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-db-task/138623 "2008-05-26T02:03:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joel)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-db-task/138623/1 "2008-05-26T02:03:53Z")

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Hello,

just wanted to know how to create a rake db task to populate data into  
a database.

Thanks

Joel

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**Author:** ![joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joel)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake-db-task/138623/2 "2008-05-26T02:50:05Z")

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Here’s a great tutorial on rake,  
[http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/6/11/ruby-on-rails-rake-tutorial](http://www.railsenvy.com/2007/6/11/ruby-on-rails-rake-tutorial).  
You may want to check out the seed\_fu plugin,  
[http://intridea.com/2008/4/20/seed-fu-simple-seed-data-for-rails](http://intridea.com/2008/4/20/seed-fu-simple-seed-data-for-rails).

best.  
mike