Rails 6 adds rails db:prepare to migrate or setup a database

Rails 6 adds rails db:prepare to migrate or setup a database if it doesn't exist.

Before Rails 6, we had to run the following tasks to set up the database.

# create the database
rails db:create

# run the migrations
rails db:migrate

# prepopulate the database with initial/default data
rails db:seed

Rails 6

Rails 6, adds rails db:prepare to get rid of running all the above tasks individually. rails db:prepare first calls the migrate to run the migrations, but if the database doesn't exist, migrate throws an ActiveRecord::NoDatabaseError. Once it is catched, it performs the following operations:

• Creates the database.
• Loads the schema.
• Seeds the database.

Thus, rails db:prepare saves a lot of time spent on running database tasks individually while setting up an application and finishes it with just one command.

Here is the relevant pull request.