by mistake i have deleted the contents of the db folder in an rails app.
how do i recreate those db migration files?
On Aug 13, 9:01 am, Rails L. [email protected]
wrote:
by mistake i have deleted the contents of the db folder in an rails app.
how do i recreate those db migration files?
restore them from source control 
if you just need the structure of the database then rake
db:schema:dump will dump that.
Fred
Frederick C. wrote:
On Aug 13, 9:01�am, Rails L. [email protected]
wrote:by mistake i have deleted the contents of the db folder in an rails app.
how do i recreate those db migration files?restore them from source control
if you just need the structure of the database then rake
db:schema:dump will dump that.Fred
Fred, thanks a lot. it has create the schema dump. if I do db:migrate,
will it create all the tables using my current connection parameters?
On Aug 13, 4:13 am, Rails L. [email protected]
wrote:
Fred
Fred, thanks a lot. it has create the schema dump. if I do db:migrate,
will it create all the tables using my current connection parameters?
Um… no? If you need to create a db according to the dumped schema
(on another machine, I presume), you’d use “rake db:schema:dump”.
And you are using source control, right? I hope?
–Matt J.
Matt J. wrote:
Um… no? If you need to create a db according to the dumped schema
(on another machine, I presume), you’d use “rake db:schema:dump”.
Matt, I assume you wanted to type:
$ rake db:schema:load
For the OP, more options:
$ rake -T db:schema
$ rake -T db
$ rake -T
You were given an awesome advice, use source control. It can improve
your life quality immensely. BTW, if I would be asked which one, I’d say
git. YMMV.
xy xy wrote:
Matt J. wrote:
Um… no? If you need to create a db according to the dumped schema
(on another machine, I presume), you’d use “rake db:schema:dump”.Matt, I assume you wanted to type:
$ rake db:schema:load
For the OP, more options:
$ rake -T db:schema
$ rake -T db
$ rake -TYou were given an awesome advice, use source control. It can improve
your life quality immensely. BTW, if I would be asked which one, I’d say
git. YMMV.
Thanks for all the answers. I am yet to use source control. Although I
am sure source control is useful, i haven’t found ( or i didn’t try hard
enough :-)) any simple tutorial for learning to use git.
Rails L. wrote:
Thanks for all the answers. I am yet to use source control. Although I
am sure source control is useful, i haven’t found ( or i didn’t try hard
enough :-)) any simple tutorial for learning to use git.
Source control isn’t just useful. It saves lives. And RAILS_ROOT/db/*
files. 
You can pick your new favourite Git tutorial/book/screencast at
http://git-scm.com/documentation