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rails db — Various database-related subcommands for Ruby on Rails. More information: <https://guides.rubyonrail

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Problem

How to use the rails db command: Various database-related subcommands for Ruby on Rails. More information: <https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_migrations.html>.

Solution

rails db — Various database-related subcommands for Ruby on Rails. More information: <https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_migrations.html>.

Create databases, load the schema, and initialize with seed data:

rails db:setup

Access the database console:

rails db

Create the databases defined in the current environment:

rails db:create

Destroy the databases defined in the current environment:

rails db:drop

Run pending migrations:

rails db:migrate

View the status of each migration file:

rails db:migrate:status

Rollback the last migration:

rails db:rollback

Fill the current database with data defined in db/seeds.rb:

rails db:seed

Code Snippets

Create databases, load the schema, and initialize with seed data

rails db:setup

Access the database console

rails db

Create the databases defined in the current environment

rails db:create

Destroy the databases defined in the current environment

rails db:drop

Run pending migrations

rails db:migrate

Context

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