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

To drop a particular database, you can do this on rails console:

$rails console
Loading development environment
1.9.3 > ActiveRecord::Migration.drop_table(:)
1.9.3 > exit

And then migrate DB again

$bundle exec rake db:migrate