October 27, 2020
This blog is part of our Rails 6.1 series.
In Rails 6.1, Rails will skip modifications to the test database if
SKIP_TEST_DATABASE is set to true.
> bundle exec rake db:create
Created database 'app_name_development'
Created database 'app_name_test'
> SKIP_TEST_DATABASE=true bundle exec rake db:create
Created database 'app_name_development'
As we can see in the first example, both a development and a test database
were created, which is unexpected when directly invoking db:create. One
obvious solution to this problem is to force the development environment to
only create a development database. However this solution will break
bin/setup as mentioned in
this commit.
Hence the need for an environment variable to skip test database creation.
Check out the pull request for more details.
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