How do I code a rake task that runs the Rails db:migrate task?

Question

I would like to run db:migrate VERSION=0 and then db:migrate inside of my own rake task. I am confused about how to do this. Do I need a special require statement? My rake task will reside in the lib/tasks directory of a Rails app. Thanks.

Answer 1

Is your task just dependent on having a clean db? If that's the case then you can do:

task :my_task => [:environment, 'db:reset']

Answer 2

EDIT: Rake::Task[] won't accept parameters, you have to set it in ENV. In addition, you have to reenable the task to run it multiple times.

ENV['VERSION']= '0'
Rake::Task['db:migrate'].invoke
Rake::Task['db:migrate'].reenable
ENV.delete 'VERSION'
Rake::Task["db:migrate"].invoke

NOTE: Rake::Task.reenable requires Rake 0.8.2 or higher.

Answer 3

Check out rake db:reset as that will accomplish what you are trying to do.

To see what all of your rake tasks do, run rake -T