Database Commands in Ruby

From the Ruby on Rails cheat sheet · Database & Migrations · verified Jul 2026

Create, migrate, and manage database

bash

# Create database
rails db:create

# Run migrations
rails db:migrate

# Rollback last migration
rails db:rollback

# Drop database
rails db:drop

✅ db:create creates database defined in database.yml

💡 db:reset drops and recreates from schema.rb

🔍 db:setup is for first-time setup, db:reset for refresh

⚡ Always backup production before db:reset or db:drop

databasemigrationssetup

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