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

Update: In Rails 5, this command will be accessible through this command:

rails db:purge db:create db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test

---

As of the newest rails 4.2 release you can now run:

rake db:purge 

Source: commit

# desc "Empty the database from DATABASE_URL or config/database.yml for the current RAILS_ENV (use db:drop:all to drop all databases in the config). Without RAILS_ENV it defaults to purging the development and test databases."
  task :purge => [:load_config] do
    ActiveRecord::Tasks::DatabaseTasks.purge_current
  end

It can be used together like mentioned above:

rake db:purge db:create db:migrate RAILS_ENV=test