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+namespace :db do
+  desc 'replace user sensitive data with placeholders'
+  task anonymize_user: :environment do
+    if ENV['RAILS_ENV'] == 'production'
+      puts 'You do not want to anonymize production data'
+    else
+      puts 'Anonymizing user data'
+      @user_ids = User.ids.shuffle
+      Broadcast.find_each do |broadcast|
+        broadcast.creator_id = @user_ids.sample
+        broadcast.save!
+      end
+      User.find_each do |user|
+        new_id = @user_ids.pop
+
+        user.encrypted_password = user.encrypted_password.truncate(8)
+        user.auth0_uid = user.auth0_uid.truncate(15) + new_id.to_s if user.auth0_uid
+        user.latitude = 50 + 0.001 * new_id
+        user.longitude = 10 - 0.001 * new_id
+        user.city = "city#{new_id}"
+        user.postal_code = 10000 + new_id
+
+        user.email = "user#{user.id}@example.org"
+        user.save!
+      end
+      Rake::Task['db:dump'].invoke
+    end
+  end
+
+  desc 'Dumps the database to db/APP_NAME.dump'
+  task dump: :environment do
+    app, host, db, user = with_config
+    cmd = "pg_dump --host #{host} #{user_present?(user)} --verbose --clean --no-owner --no-acl --format=c #{db} > #{Rails.root}/db/#{app}.dump"
+    puts cmd
+    exec cmd
+  end
+
+  desc 'Restores the database dump at db/APP_NAME.dump.'
+  task restore: :environment do
+    app, host, db, user = with_config
+    cmd = "pg_restore --verbose --host #{host} #{user_present?(user)} --clean --no-owner --no-acl --dbname #{db} #{Rails.root}/db/#{app}.dump"
+    Rake::Task['db:drop'].invoke
+    Rake::Task['db:create'].invoke
+    Rake::Task['db:migrate'].invoke
+    puts cmd
+    exec cmd
+  end
+
+  private
+
+  def user_present?(user)
+    user ? '--username ' + user : nil
+  end
+
+  def with_config
+    [
+      Rails.application.class.parent_name.underscore,
+      ActiveRecord::Base.connection_config[:host],
+      ActiveRecord::Base.connection_config[:database],
+      ActiveRecord::Base.connection_config[:username]
+    ]
+  end
+end