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Global variables

Below is a list of available variables that are able to be used in a seed file.

@seed_file

type: string

The Ruby File object with the value of the Seed file selected for seeding.

@owner

type: string

The owner of the GitLab Group created to house the seed data. By default, this is set to the root user.

@name

type: string

The name of the seed. This will be equal to the name of the seed file without the extension. For instance, if the file name was beautiful_data.rb, the @name would be set to beautiful_data.

@group

type: string

The group that contains all seeded data.

@logger

The logger object used to log output.