rent seed

rent seed runs a Rust binary from your application. The seed program uses the same generated client, configuration, policies, and transaction behavior as the rest of your code.

Conventional seed binary

Create src/bin/seed.rs, then run:

rent seed

This executes cargo run --bin seed from the project root. If the seed binary fails, Rent reports its exit status and exits unsuccessfully itself.

   Compiling social-api v0.1.0 (/work/social-api)
    Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.58s
     Running `target/debug/seed`
inserted 12 users, 48 posts, and 173 comments

Rent streams the seed program's output directly, so application progress and tracing events remain visible.

Select a package and binary

rent seed --package social-api --bin bootstrap

Use --release when the seed performs a large import:

rent seed --bin import_catalog --release

Forward application arguments

Arguments after -- are passed to the seed binary unchanged:

rent seed --bin bootstrap -- --tenant acme --users 500

Keep destructive reset behavior inside the application binary, where it can require environment-specific confirmation and use a transaction.