How to access default Rails sqlite db?

Question

I would like to view the data in my DB while developing with Rails (actually in all 3 of them development, test and production). I have not touched the configs, so it should

Answer 1

You can have online access to your database if you use activeadmin.

Just add the gem activeadmin-sqlpage:

gem 'activeadmin-sqlpage'

And create activeadmin page:

# file app/admin/sql.rb
ActiveAdmin::SqlPage::register

Restart your server. Then go to admin panel and navigate the menu SQL. Enter any sql command and press Ctrl+Enter or Submit button.

Answer 2

Open terminal and type this command. This will open a rails console to query the database.

rails c

To get list of all the models you can use the following command

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.tables

example: ["schema_migrations", "ar_internal_metadata", "categories", "items"]

From the list of models, you can get first, last or all records.

Category.all