Trouble using PhilColumns for seeding – seeds.exs not running

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I have the following seeding setup:

  • A seed/2 function that uses PhilColumns.Seeder.run/4
  • Seed files are placed in priv/repo/seeds
  • I also have a seeds.exs script that runs Glific.Seeds.SeedsDev.seed() and populates a lot of initial data
    code is something like this
@spec seed(any, any) :: any
  def seed(opts \\ Keyword.new(), seeder \\ &PhilColumns.Seeder.run/4) do
    repos = load_repos()
    # set env with current_env/0 overwriting provided arg
    # Tags keyword is required for the PhilColumns library
    opts =
      Keyword.put(opts, :env, current_env())
      |> Keyword.put(:tags, [])

    opts =
      if opts[:to] || opts[:step] || opts[:all],
        do: opts,
        else: Keyword.put(opts, :all, true)

    opts =
      if opts[:log],
        do: opts,
        else: Keyword.put(opts, :log, :info)

    opts =
      if opts[:quiet],
        do: Keyword.put(opts, :log, false),
        else: opts

    opts =
      if opts[:tenant],
        do: opts,
        else: Keyword.put(opts, :tenant, "main")

    # We need to run the with the loaded repo. This is a public API provided
    for repo <- repos do
      {:ok, _, _} = Ecto.Migrator.with_repo(repo, &run_seeders(&1, seeder, opts))
    end
  end

  defp current_env, do: Mix.env()
  # Get active repo context
  @spec load_repos() :: any()
  defp load_repos do
    Application.load(@app)
    Application.fetch_env!(@app, :ecto_repos)
  end

  @spec run_seeders(any(), any(), Keyword.t()) :: any()
  defp run_seeders(repo, seeder, opts) do
    IO.inspect(repo, label: "repo")
    IO.inspect(seeder, label: "seeder")
    IO.inspect(opts, label: "opts")
    IO.inspect(Path.join(:code.priv_dir(@app), "repo/seeds"), label: "path")
    seeder.(repo, Path.join(:code.priv_dir(@app), "repo/seeds"), :up, opts)
  end

and it should go here

# Script for populating the database. You can run it as:

#

# mix run priv/repo/seeds.exs

#

# Inside the script, you can read and write to any of your

# repositories directly:

#

# Glific.Repo.insert!(%Glific.SomeSchema{})

#

# We recommend using the bang functions (`insert!`, `update!`

# and so on) as they will fail if something goes wrong.

alias Glific.Seeds.SeedsDev

SeedsDev.seed()

but its not going the reason i got

PhilColumns does not automatically execute seeds.exs.

It only executes .exs files in the priv/repo/seeds/ folder that:

  • Are named like a timestamp: 20250323123000_seed_users.exs
  • Contain a module that uses PhilColumns.Migration
  • Define an up/2 function

I just want to understand — could this be the reason? It was working before but suddenly stopped

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SeedsDev.seed() is calling a different function in SeedsDev module. The first block of code is in Glific.Seeds.Seeder module.