Rails - Dec 2004 - Cloning DB Structure and Data

Hi,

Is there a reason I''m not aware of for not having the ability to clone 
from development to production and production to development using "rake 
clone_development_structure_to_production" and "rake 
clone_production_structure_to_development"?

One might want to update the development database with more up-to-date 
data or clone the development sructure to production when ready.

What do you think?

LG

> Is there a reason I''m not aware of for not having the ability to
clone
> from development to production and production to development using 
> "rake clone_development_structure_to_production" and "rake 
> clone_production_structure_to_development"?
No. I''d like to be able to do that as well. Please do submit a patch 
and it''ll make it in post haste.
--
David Heinemeier Hansson,
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Ok, I asked about passing parameters to rake tasks on #rubyonrails and
apparently it can''t be done except when using
ENV["param_name"]. I''d
like to be able to do this:

rake clone_database_structure source=<source_database> 
target=<target_database>

Othewise I get the impression that there has to be a task for each
cloning direction effectively repeating ourselves.

Thoughts?

LG

David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
>> Is there a reason I''m not aware of for not having the ability
to clone
>> from development to production and production to development using 
>> "rake clone_development_structure_to_production" and
"rake
>> clone_production_structure_to_development"?
> 
> 
> No. I''d like to be able to do that as well. Please do submit a
patch and
> it''ll make it in post haste.
> -- 
> David Heinemeier Hansson,
> http://www.basecamphq.com/   -- Web-based Project Management
> http://www.rubyonrails.org/  -- Web-application framework for Ruby
> http://macromates.com/       -- TextMate: Code and markup editor (OS X)
> http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Broadcasting Brain
> 
>