Rails: Improve guidance on development environment seed data#782
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Closes #779 In practice I found that Rails was autoloading `lib/tasks/development.rake`, which originally called `abort`. This meant the application failed to boot. This would happen if the application was using [Tailwind CSS for Rails][tailwind], since that requires calling `bin/rails tailwindcss:watch`, which loads all tasks. Additionally, this commit makes a change to the task such that global seed data is loaded too. These changes are being used in Suspenders. [tailwind]: https://github.com/rails/tailwindcss-rails
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Closes #779
In practice I found that Rails was autoloading
lib/tasks/development.rake, which originally calledabort. Thismeant the application failed to boot.
This would happen if the application was using Tailwind CSS for
Rails, since that requires calling
bin/rails tailwindcss:watch, which loads all tasks.Additionally, this commit makes a change to the task such that global
seed data is loaded too.
These changes are being used in Suspenders.