Check if a table exists in Rails

Question

I have a rake task that won\'t work unless a table exists. I\'m working with more than 20 engineers on a website so I want to make sure they have migrated the table before they

Answer 1

Rails 5.1

if ActiveRecord::Base.connection.data_source_exists? 'table_name'
   drop_table :table_name
end

or

drop_table :table_name, if_exists: true