diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 4c7d000..94ea712 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ gem 'will_paginate', '~> 3.0.3'
 # Gems used only for assets and not required
 # in production environments by default.
 group :assets do
-  gem 'sass-rails',   '~> 3.2.3'
   gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 3.2.1'
   gem "twitter-bootstrap-rails", "~> 2.0.3"
 
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index cdc4ff0..9224536 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 GIT
   remote: https://github.com/spacemunkay/acts_as_loggable.git
-  revision: 6033fe5a44878bb374f73fe473fed9a3396ddc74
+  revision: 49e264849ed9018445fb999cacfc55e1e28d7faa
   specs:
     acts_as_loggable (0.0.7)
       activerecord (>= 3.0)
@@ -178,11 +178,6 @@ GEM
       railties (>= 3.0)
       rspec (~> 2.8.0)
     rubyzip (0.9.9)
-    sass (3.2.7)
-    sass-rails (3.2.6)
-      railties (~> 3.2.0)
-      sass (>= 3.1.10)
-      tilt (~> 1.3)
     selenium-webdriver (2.31.0)
       childprocess (>= 0.2.5)
       multi_json (~> 1.0)
@@ -248,7 +243,6 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   rails (= 3.2.13)
   rb-fsevent
   rspec-rails (~> 2.8.1)
-  sass-rails (~> 3.2.3)
   shoulda-matchers (~> 1.0.0)
   spork
   sqlite3 (~> 1.3.5)
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 5164c52..8c2e9b2 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -12,16 +12,20 @@ require File.expand_path('../config/application', __FILE__)
 
 Velocipede::Application.load_tasks
 
-namespace :spec do
-  desc 'Run all acceptance specs'
-  RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:acceptance => 'db:test:prepare') do |t|
-    t.pattern = '**/*.feature'
+unless Rails.env.production?
+
+  namespace :spec do
+    desc 'Run all acceptance specs'
+    RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:acceptance => 'db:test:prepare') do |t|
+      t.pattern = '**/*.feature'
+    end
   end
-end
 
-Rake.application.remove_task 'spec'
+  Rake.application.remove_task 'spec'
+
+  desc 'Run all specs'
+  RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec => 'db:test:prepare') do |t|
+    t.pattern = '**/*{_spec.rb,.feature}'
+  end
 
-desc 'Run all specs'
-RSpec::Core::RakeTask.new(:spec => 'db:test:prepare') do |t|
-  t.pattern = '**/*{_spec.rb,.feature}'
 end
diff --git a/db/seeds.rb b/db/seeds.rb
index 89a9000..197c412 100644
--- a/db/seeds.rb
+++ b/db/seeds.rb
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ if Rails.env.development?
   if User.all.empty?
     FactoryGirl.create(:user)
     FactoryGirl.create(:staff)
-    FactoryGirl.create(:admin)
     FactoryGirl.create(:bike_admin)
     FactoryGirl.create(:user_profile)
   end
@@ -35,4 +34,16 @@ if Rails.env.development?
       FactoryGirl.create(:bike)
     end
   end
+elsif Rails.env.production?
+
+  if User.all.empty?
+    #create an admin
+    admin = User.create!( :username => 'admin',
+                  :first_name => 'admin',
+                  :last_name => 'admin',
+                  :email=>'admin@example.com',
+                  :password=>'password')
+    admin.roles << Role.find_by_role('admin')
+  end
+
 end