set rake db:migrate environment

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When running rake db:migrate, how do you control which environment gets migrated? Running it without options always updates the development database. This is obviously not what I want to do on the production server.

Thank you, Landon

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RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate

Whammo.

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Thank you!

So the next question is, where is that in the documentation?

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Dunno, it's been a while since I had to look that one up :-). It works for almost everything. Rails looks to the RAILS_ENV env variable to set it's mode. You can do the same with:

  RAILS_ENV=production script/console

or a script/server, or a bunch of other little things.

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RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate

Michael