Rake task to backup and restore database

Question

I am working on a Rails project, and sometimes I program at home and sometimes at work. In my development process, I add data to the database, and I really need a way to synchro

Answer 1

write a rake task:

namespace :db do
  task :backup do
    system "mysqldump --opt --user=root --password rose userdetails> xyz.sql"
  end

  task :restore do
    system "mysqldump --user=root --password  < xyz.sql"
  end
end

By the rake db:backup you will get the sql that you can commit to your git/svn and once you work from home to restore pull it and run rake db:restore