The following snippet provides a minimal example of how to use active record outside of Rails. Rails migrations (Standalone migrations) in non-Rails (and non Ruby) projects.
- Add database configuration to
database.yml - Create new database
$ bundle install $ rake db:create
$ rake --tasks
rake db:create # Creates the database from DATABASE_URL or config/database.yml for the current RAILS_ENV (use db:create:all to create all databases in the config). Without RAILS_ENV or when RAILS_ENV is development, it defaults to creating the develo...
rake db:drop # Drops the database from DATABASE_URL or config/database.yml for the current RAILS_ENV (use db:drop:all to drop all databases in the config). Without RAILS_ENV or when RAILS_ENV is development, it defaults to dropping the development ...
rake db:environment:set # Set the environment value for the database
rake db:fixtures:load # Loads fixtures into the current environment's database
rake db:generate[name,options] # Creates a new migration file with the specified name
rake db:migrate # Migrate the database (options: VERSION=x, VERBOSE=false, SCOPE=blog)
rake db:migrate:status # Display status of migrations
rake db:rollback # Rolls the schema back to the previous version (specify steps w/ STEP=n)
rake db:schema:cache:clear # Clears a db/schema_cache.yml file
rake db:schema:cache:dump # Creates a db/schema_cache.yml file
rake db:schema:dump # Creates a db/schema.rb file that is portable against any DB supported by Active Record
rake db:schema:load # Loads a schema.rb file into the database
rake db:seed # Loads the seed data from db/seeds.rb
rake db:setup # Creates the database, loads the schema, and initializes with the seed data (use db:reset to also drop the database first)
rake db:structure:dump # Dumps the database structure to db/structure.sql
rake db:structure:load # Recreates the databases from the structure.sql file
rake db:version # Retrieves the current schema version number