Rails, how to migrate data from development sqlite3 database to production MySQL database?

Question

With Rails, how do you migrate data from development sqlite3 database to production MySQL database?

How to make it easier?

Answer 1

Assuming your database configurations are properly set up in config/database.yml, the following should get the database structure set up in production for you.

Runs against development database by default:

rake db:schema:dump

Run this against your production database by virtue of the RAILS_ENV environment variable:

rake RAILS_ENV=production db:schema:load