Does rake db:schema:dump recreate schema.rb from migrations or the database itself?

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pingu picture pingu · Sep 28, 2010 · Viewed 46.5k times · Source

Does

rake db:schema:dump

recreate schema.rb from migrations or the database itself?

Answer

Radek Paviensky picture Radek Paviensky · Sep 28, 2010

The answer is simple: from the database.

By the way - when you take a look into the source code of db:* tasks you can see that migration tasks calls schema:dump after the run

desc "Migrate the database (options: VERSION=x, VERBOSE=false)."
task :migrate => :environment do
  ActiveRecord::Migration.verbose = ENV["VERBOSE"] ? ENV["VERBOSE"] == "true" : true
  ActiveRecord::Migrator.migrate("db/migrate/", ENV["VERSION"] ? ENV["VERSION"].to_i : nil)
  Rake::Task["db:schema:dump"].invoke if ActiveRecord::Base.schema_format == :ruby
end

So the migration works in the way that it change the database and then generate schema.rb file.

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