dbconsole in Rails 3 requires the environment as the first argument

Henning Koch

September 06, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

There is a bug in Rails 3's dbconsole script, which makes the following command open a database console for the development environment:

rails dbconsole -p test

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You need to write this instead:

rails dbconsole test -p

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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2011-09-06 13:35)