Seeding data to Laravel Forge not working

I've hit a roadblock with Laravel Forge, couldn't find any updated tuts on how to seed data to production.

When I run this 'php artisan db:seed --class=CountrySeeder' command locally it works.

I tried adding in the 'deploy script' section in Forge but it didn't work. https://pasteboard.co/JDs4c6l.png

Any help would be appreciated.

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Do you need to apply the seeder each time you deploy to the server?

And you are not showing what was the error, it is hard to guess now.

But if I took a chance to guess is because it couldn't find the seeder class in which case it can be fixed using composer dump-autoload.

But for a Seeder to be run, I wouldn't add it to the deploy script but SSH to the server and run the command only once.

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I did this "But for a Seeder to be run, I wouldn't add it to the deploy script but SSH to the server and run the command only once." and it worked!

I logged into to the digital ocean droplet from my local machine, cd into the folder and ran the command.

Thanks for the help!

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