That’s kind of cool, I was reading a post about DHH Keynote at RailsConf Europe when I realized that DHH mentioned one of my contribution to Rails Edge.
“small, but to me significant improvement has also found its way to Rails 2.0: You can now create the needed databases with a rake command. By running this command, all referenced databases in your database.yml will be created”
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rake db:create:all |
I’m glad to see that my contribution is appreciated, as a reminder you also have the following options:
Only create your current environment database (can be useful to bootstrap your application):
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rake db:create
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Another command I use often in development is:
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rake db:reset
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It simply drops your current environment database, re create it and migrate it 
(btw, your new database will be utf-8 by default)
Here is a list of the new rake tasks:
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rake db:create # Create the local database defined in config/database.yml for the current RAILS_ENV rake db:create:all # Create all the local databases defined in config/database.yml rake db:drop # Drops the database for the current environment rake db:reset # Drops, creates and then migrates the database for the current environment. Target specific version with VERSION=x |
Read DHH Keynote summary there
