rake db:create (in development mode) creates development _and_ test database

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This behaviour seems strange to me:

Rails 3.0.4

$ rake db:create # => creates project_dev AND project_test databases

$ rake db:drop # => only drops the project_dev database (as expected)

$ RAILS_ENV=test rake db:drop # => this effectively drops the project_test database (as expected)

Seems in conflict with this description:

$ rake -T db:create rake db:create # Create the database from config/database.yml for the current Rails.env (use db:create:all to create all dbs i...

$ rake -T db:drop rake db:drop # Drops the database for the current Rails.env (use db:drop:all to drop all databases)

If this is not the intended behaviour, I can submit a bug report in rails-core and probably work up a patch too. Catting my Gemfile here (just did bundle update with this):

$ cat Gemfile source 'http://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', '3.0.4' gem 'pg', '0.10.1' gem 'capistrano' gem 'openminds_deploy'

group :development, :test do   gem 'rspec-rails', '>= 2.0.0'   gem 'cucumber-rails', '>= 0.3.2'   gem 'webrat', '>= 0.7.2'   gem 'autotest' end

HTH,

Peter

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I guess the document for db:create need to be updated:

activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake#36

desc ‘Create the database from config/database.yml for the current Rails.env (use db:create:all to create all dbs in the config)’ task :create => :load_config do # Make the test database at the same time as the development one, if it exists if Rails.env.development? && ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[‘test’] create_database(ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[‘test’]) end create_database(ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[Rails.env]) end