Purge or recreate a Ruby on Rails database

Question

I have a dev Ruby on Rails database full of data. I want to delete everything and rebuild the database. I\'m thinking of using something like:

rake db:recrea         


        

Answer 1

Because in development , you will always want to recreate the database,you can define a rake task in your lib/tasks folder like that.

  namespace :db do
      task :all => [:environment, :drop, :create, :migrate] do
   end 
end

and in terminal you will run

rake db:all

it will rebuild your database