This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Ruby Buzz by rwdaigle. Original Post: What's New in Edge Rails: New Database Rake Tasks Feed Title: Ryan's Scraps Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/RyansScraps Feed Description: Ryan Daigle's various technically inclined rants along w/ the "What's new in Edge Rails" series. Latest Ruby Buzz Posts Latest Ruby Buzz Posts by rwdaigle Latest Posts From Ryan's Scraps

Not two days after I just implemented these tasks myself for a client project comes the addition of some useful rake tasks that handle the provisioning of your database.

Want to create your database without having to drop into that pesky mysql command prompt? Then I believe rake db:create is your man. Don’t need that database anymore? Give rake db:drop a try. Want to tear down your database and re-create it, migrations and all? rake db:reset is your jack-of-all-trades then.

And all the options you’re used to when raking the database still apply:

1
2
3
4
5

# Drop the test database
RAILS_ENV=test rake db:drop

# Recreate the staging database, but only migrate it to version 3
RAILS_ENV=staging rake db:reset VERSION=3

If you haven’t made rake a part of your life yet, it’s time you do so.

tags: ruby, rubyonrails