How to manage schema in a different database from within a rails app

Question

I have a simple Rails app which populates into a certain database and there are few migration scripts. I would like to create a different set of model classes and actually migrate the schema pertaining to those files into a different database. How should we do that? Will I be able to do this from the same rails app?

Answer 1

Well, change the database name in database.yml , then follow the usual steps, bundle exec rake db:setup should do the work.

Or you could create a seperate database_2.yml and then make a database.rake file and follow the steps here