Purge or recreate a Ruby on Rails database

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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 recreate   Is this possible

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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   gt    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

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Use like   rake db drop db create db migrate db seed   All in one line  This is faster since the environment doesn t get reloaded again and again   db drop - will drop database   db create - will create database  host db password will be taken from config database yml   db migrate - will run existing migrations from directory  db migration  rb     db seed - will run seed data possible from directory  db migration seed rb     I usually prefer   rake db reset   to do all at once   Cheers

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I use the following one liner in Terminal     rake db drop  amp  amp  rake db create  amp  amp  rake db migrate  amp  amp  rake db schema dump  amp  amp  rake db test prepare   I put this as a shell alias and named it remigrate  By now  you can easily  chain  Rails tasks     rake db drop db create db migrate db schema dump db test prepare   db test prepare no longer available since Rails 4 1 0 rc1

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Just issue the sequence of the steps  drop the database  then re-create it again  migrate data  and if you have seeds  sow the database   rake db drop db create db migrate db seed   Since the default environment for rake is development  in case if you see the exception in spec tests  you should re-create db for the test environment as follows   RAILS ENV test rake db drop db create db migrate   In most cases the test database is being sowed during the test procedures  so db seed task action isn t required to be passed  Otherwise  you shall to prepare the database   rake db test prepare   or  RAILS ENV test rake db seed   Additionally  to use the recreate task you can add into Rakefile the following code   namespace  db do    task  recreate   gt     drop   create   migrate   do       if ENV   RAILS ENV        test cucumber           Rake  Task   db seed    invoke       end    end end   Then issue   rake db recreate

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I know two ways to do this   This will reset your database and reload your current schema with all   rake db reset db migrate   This will destroy your db and then create it and then migrate your current schema   rake db drop db create db migrate   All data will be lost in both scenarios

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To drop a particular database  you can do this on rails console    rails console Loading development environment 1 9 3  gt  ActiveRecord  Migration drop table   lt table name gt   1 9 3  gt  exit   And then migrate DB again   bundle exec rake db migrate

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You can manually do   rake db drop rake db create rake db migrate   Or just rake db reset  which will run the above steps but will also run your db seeds rb file     An added nuance is that rake db reset loads directly from your schema rb file as opposed to running all the migrations files again     You data gets blown away in all cases

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3 options  same result   1  All steps       rake db drop             deletes the database for the current env     rake db create           creates the database for the current env     rake db schema load      loads the schema already generated from schema rb   erases data     rake db seed             seed with initial data   2  Reset       rake db reset            drop   schema load   seed   3  Migrate reset       rake db migrate reset    drop   create   migrate     rake db seed   Notes    If schema load is used is faster than doing all migrations  but same result     All data will be lost     You can run multiple rakes in one line  Works with rails 3

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You can use  db reset - for run db drop and db setup or db migrate reset - which runs db drop  db create and db migrate   dependent at you want to use exist schema rb

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I think the best way to run this command     rake db reset   it does db drop  db setup  rake db setup does db create  db schema load  db seed

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Depending on what you re wanting  you can use     rake db create     to build the database from scratch from config database yml  or     rake db schema load     to build the database from scratch from your schema rb file

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From the command line run  rake db migrate reset

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Because in development   you will always want to recreate the database you can define a rake task in your lib tasks folder like that      namespace  db do       task  all   gt    environment   drop   create   migrate  do    end  end   and in terminal you will run   rake db all   it will rebuild your database

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In Rails 6 there is a convenient way for resetting DB and planting seeds again  rails db seed replant   Truncates tables of each database for current environment and loads the seeds  https   weblog rubyonrails org 2019 3 15 this-week-in-rails-security-fixes-bulk-insert-and-upsert-seeds-replanting

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I ve today made quite a few changes to my rails schema  I realised I needed an additional two models in a hierarchy and some others to be deleted  There were many little changes required to the models and controllers   I added the two new models and created them  using   rake db migrate   Then I edited the schema rb file  I manually removed the old models that were no longer required  changed the foreign key field as required and just reordered it a bit to make it clearer to me  I deleted all the migrations  and then re-ran the build via   rake db reset   It worked perfectly  All the data has to be reloaded  of course  Rails realised the migrations had been deleted and reset the high-water mark   -- assume migrated upto version 20121026094813     Users sean rails f4 db migrate

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On Rails 4  all needed is     rake db schema load   That would delete the entire contents on your DB and recreate the schema from your schema rb file  without having to apply all migrations one by one

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You can use this following command line   rake db drop db create db migrate db seed db test clone

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Simply you can run   rake db setup  It will drop database  create new database and populate db from seed if you created seed file with some data

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I use   rails db drop to delete the databases  rails db create to create the databases based on config database yml  The previous commands may be replaced with rails db reset  Don t forget to run rails db migrate to run the migrations

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According to Rails guide  this one liner should be used because it would load from the schema rb instead of reloading the migration files one by one   rake db reset

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On rails 4 2  to remove all data but preserve the database    bin rake db purge  amp  amp  bin rake db schema load   https   github com rails rails blob 4-2-stable activerecord CHANGELOG md

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