What is db/development_structure.sql in a rails project?

Question

There is a development_structure.sql inside my /db folder of my rails application (rails 2.3.4, ruby 1.8.7) and I am not sure exactly what it does.

Answer 1

It's created when you run a rake task to clone your development database to your test database. The development database is outputted to SQL which is then read in to your test DB. You can safely delete it.