How to drop all tables from the database with manage.py CLI in Django?

Question

How can I drop all tables from a database using manage.py and command line? Is there any way to do that executing manage.py with appropriate parameters so I can execute it f

Answer 1

Here's an example Makefile to do some nice things with multiple settings files:

test:
    python manage.py test --settings=my_project.test

db_drop:
    echo 'DROP DATABASE my_project_development;' | ./manage.py dbshell
    echo 'DROP DATABASE my_project_test;' | ./manage.py dbshell

db_create:
    echo 'CREATE DATABASE my_project_development;' | ./manage.py dbshell
    echo 'CREATE DATABASE my_project_test;' | ./manage.py dbshell

db_migrate:
    python manage.py migrate --settings=my_project.base
    python manage.py migrate --settings=my_project.test

db_reset: db_drop db_create db_migrate

.PHONY: test db_drop db_create db_migrate db_reset

Then you can do things like: $ make db_reset