Why does rake db:rollback rollback three steps?

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Fellow Stranger picture Fellow Stranger · Nov 6, 2013 · Viewed 14.3k times · Source

Normally when I do 

$ rake db:rollback

it rolls back one migration. But now, repeatedly times, it has rollbacked 3 steps.

How come this behaviour?

I'm on Rails 3.2.13.

Answer

Jaap Haagmans picture Jaap Haagmans · Nov 6, 2013

You can specify the number of steps like this:

rake db:rollback STEP=3

The STEP parameter is actually an environment variable here. If, in your terminal, you run the command echo $STEP, does it return 3? If it does, you can execute export STEP=1 to get back to expected behaviour. If it happens again, try to find out where this environment variable is being set.

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