Rake db:create:all

Rails
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I’m new to Ruby on Rails, and just want to ask, what do we mean when
typing this command:

$ rake db:create:all

Thanks.

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On 21 June 2010 19:10, Abder-rahman Ali [email protected] wrote:

I’m new to Ruby on Rails, and just want to ask, what do we mean when
typing this command:

$ rake db:create:all

It’s pretty self-explanatory - it creates all the databases for the
application (which are defined in database.yml)

Not hard to discover this either:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=rake+db:create:all

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Michael P. wrote:

On 21 June 2010 19:10, Abder-rahman Ali [email protected] wrote:

I’m new to Ruby on Rails, and just want to ask, what do we mean when
typing this command:

$ rake db:create:all

It’s pretty self-explanatory - it creates all the databases for the
application (which are defined in database.yml)

Not hard to discover this either:
rake db:create:all - Google Search

Thanks Michael.

What is mean here by “Creating” a database. Is it to be built from
scratch?

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On 21/06/2010 20:31, Abder-rahman Ali wrote:

What is mean here by “Creating” a database. Is it to be built from
scratch?

For future reference, if you execute rake -T, it will show you all the
rake tasks that have descriptions, together with a brief description,
e.g:

rake db:create:all # Create all the local
databases defined in config/database.yml

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On 21 June 2010 19:31, Abder-rahman Ali [email protected] wrote:

Michael P. wrote:

It’s pretty self-explanatory - it creates all the databases for the
application (which are defined in database.yml)

What is mean here by “Creating” a database. Is it to be built from
scratch?

Assuming you have a DB engine installed (MySQL, SQLite, etc) and
you’ve configured your config/database.yml file to use the DB engine,
but you haven’t “created” a database in your favoured engine - the
rake task will do that for you.

This stuff is all covered as pretty much step 1 in any Rails tutorial
you might find online, or follow in one of the books.

Regards,