# Does capistrano do migrations?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-capistrano-do-migrations/71151>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 5, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-capistrano-do-migrations/71151 "2006-10-05T18:37:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![ingoweiss](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/77aa72/32.png) [@ingoweiss](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ingoweiss)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-capistrano-do-migrations/71151/1 "2006-10-05T18:37:09Z")

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Hi,

I am just beginning to use capistrano. When I run ‘rake deploy’, should  
Capistrano run migrations on the remote production database  
automatically? If no, can I configure it to do so? Or what is the best  
practices way of doing it? Currently, i am SSHing into my remote server  
after running ‘rake deploy’ and running the migrations manually.

Ingo

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**Author:** ![ingoweiss](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/77aa72/32.png) [@ingoweiss](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ingoweiss)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-capistrano-do-migrations/71151/2 "2006-10-05T18:45:12Z")

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try:

rake remote:exec ACTION=“deploy\_with\_migrations”

On 10/5/06, Ingo W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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**Author:** ![ingoweiss](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/77aa72/32.png) [@ingoweiss](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ingoweiss)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-capistrano-do-migrations/71151/3 "2006-10-05T19:21:17Z")

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Charles Brian Q. wrote:

> try:
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> rake remote:exec ACTION=“deploy\_with\_migrations”

Or just

rake remote:deploy\_with\_migrations

Chris

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**Author:** ![ingoweiss](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/77aa72/32.png) [@ingoweiss](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ingoweiss)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-capistrano-do-migrations/71151/4 "2006-10-05T18:45:13Z")

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Ingo W. wrote:

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If you put the command “migrate” in your :after\_update\_code task in your  
deploy script, Capistrano will do a migrate for you.

Jamey

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**Author:** ![ingoweiss](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/77aa72/32.png) [@ingoweiss](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ingoweiss)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-capistrano-do-migrations/71151/5 "2006-10-05T23:03:30Z")

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Thanks a lot for all the suggestions!

Ingo