In one of the previous episodes we learned [how to use Faker plug-in to seed our database](http://watch-learn.com/video-tutorials/making-websites-october-cms-part-27-seeding-faker) , small problem with that approach is that whenever we want to use it, we have to refresh our plug-in tables and delete all the information contained in those tables. 

So in this episode you are going to learn how to use routes in October CMS, and how can we use those routes to seed our database without the lose of information in our plug-in tables.

In this episode I'm going to show you how you can seed your database using routes and without losing any of your data.

Seeding With Routes

In this episode we are actually going to be preparing for the next few episodes in which we are going to be doing searching and filtering of our data.

And to search and filter stuff with October CMS we are of course going to need some data, so in this episode I'm going to show you how to quickly create some fake data for your plugin using the `Seeder` class and the Faker plugin.

In this episode I'm going to show you how to populate your October CMS database with some fake data using the Faker plugin.

Tutorials tagged with: seeder

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