rake db:create:all

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I'm new to Ruby on Rails, and just want to ask, what do we mean when typing this command:

$ rake db:create:all

Thanks.

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It's pretty self-explanatory - it creates all the databases for the application (which are defined in database.yml)

Not hard to discover this either: http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=rake+db:create:all

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Michael Pavling wrote:

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Assuming you have a DB engine installed (MySQL, SQLite, etc) and you've configured your config/database.yml file to use the DB engine, but you haven't "created" a database in your favoured engine - the rake task will do that for you.

This stuff is all covered as pretty much step 1 in any Rails tutorial you might find online, or follow in one of the books.

Regards,

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What is mean here by "Creating" a database. Is it to be built from scratch?

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For future reference, if you execute rake -T, it will show you all the rake tasks that have descriptions, together with a brief description, e.g:

rake db:create:all # Create all the local databases defined in config/database.yml