How to seed a new database in Rails 4, when user creates a new subdomain account?

Question

I can use rake db:seed to seed an existing database. However, in a multitenant app, using subdomains, how could I seed data for a new user account?

Should I not use seed.rb, but create seeded data with a migration?

Answer 1

You can pass parameters as illustrated here: Can I pass an argument to rake db:seed?

Then you can use switch and if statements to load/change either the data or use a different connection.