How can I migrate my database with rails to the first revision without dropping the database first?

Question

I have a database set up for my Rails installation and some migrations set up. I would like to be able to reset my database back down to having no tables/constraints/etc., b

Answer 1

In addition to jdl's (correct) solution above, another hack-y way to acheive this is to do rake db:rollback STEP=1000000, where 1000000 is a large number, larger than the number of migrations you'll ever have. It will rollback as far as it can up to 1000000 times, or however many times you put as the STEP.