Seed Fu is an attempt to once and for all solve the problem of inserting and maintaining seed data in a database. It uses a variety of techniques gathered from various places around the web and combines them to create what is hopefully the most robust seed data system around.

Adds simple rake commands for seeding your database. Simple dependencies let you organise your seeds. If you are using Rails, Seedbank extends Rails seeds and lets you add seeds for each environment.

Mass populate an Active Record database.

Manage seed data for Rails projects

A Rails plugin to assist in bootstrapping and seeding your database.

Create seed files for each model from your database data.

Packages up code needed to pull data from YAML files when seeding, and adds a process log.

has_alter_ego makes it possible to keep seed and live data transparently in parallel. In contrast to other seed data approaches has_alter_ego synchronizes the seed definitions with your database objects automagically unless you've overridden it in the database.