# Database Seeding

## Introduction

You'll likely want to seed your database during development in order to get some dummy data into your database to start working fast.

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Masonite uses Orator to generate seed files. This documentation will explain how to create the files itself.

Read more about creating seed classes with the [Orator documentation](https://orator-orm.com/docs/0.9/seeding.html).
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## Getting Started

We can simply create a new seeder by running:

```
craft seed User
```

This will create a new seeder inside the `databases/seeds` directory. This will also create a `database_seeder.py` file which will be where the root of all seeds should be. 

The `user_table_seeder` should be where you simply abstract your seeds to.

## Running Seeds

We can run:

```
craft seed:run
```

This will run the `database_seeder` seed. We can also specify an individual seed

```
craft seed:run User
```

Which will run the `user_table_seeder` only.