capistrano-mysqldump

Capistrano extension to run mysqldump remotely, download, and import into your local Rails development database.

WARNING: This will blow away your development database (duh)

Note: For capistrano v2, see version 1

gem install capistrano-mysqldump

require 'capistrano/mysqldump'

cap production mysqldump

Or whatever environment you want to take the mysqldump from

Override these defaults in deploy.rb if necessary

set :mysqldump_bin, "/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqldump"

set :mysqldump_remote_tmp_dir, "/tmp"

Where on the local machine to download the sql dump file from the remote machine

set :mysqldump_local_tmp_dir, "/tmp"

Where to run the mysqldump command. If set to :local, mysqldump will use the -h parameter and run the dump locally. The default is set to :local if a host is specified, otherwise it is set to :remote

set :mysqldump_location, :local

set :mysqldump_ignore_tables, %w(logs page_views)

set :mysqldump_tables, %w{cool_info totally_awesome_rows}

(default is all tables)

set :mysqldump_options, {'no-data' => true, 'port' => 3307 }}

Equivalent to running

$ mysqldump --no-data --port=3308

Contributions welcome
Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
Fork the project
Start a feature/bugfix branch
Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.