Rateaux

This is a collection of useful Rake tasks for Rails.

Add these line to your app's Gemfile:

# Rake tasks for Rails
gem "rateaux"

Then call bundle install.

Delete all data from the current database.

$ rake db:truncate

Delete all data and tables from the current database. This is similar to db:drop but it does not drop the database itself.

$ rake db:drop_tables

Add the # encoding: UTF-8 header to all ruby files in the project. Useful before Ruby 2.

$ rake encoding_headers

Remove migrations then checkout a git branch.

$ rake checkout new_branch_name

This will:

1. Roll back any migrations on your current branch which do not exist on the other branch
2. Discard any changes to the db/schema.rb file
3. Check out the other branch
4. Run any new migrations existing in the other branch
5. Update your test database

Empty the cache store.

$ rake cache_clear

Copy assets files with a digest (for example application-d45e…565.css) to their non-digested form (for example application.css).

$ rake assets:copy_non_digested

View the database structure.

$ rake db:schema:view