On Mar 17, 7:58 pm, Chris Gunnels <[email protected]> wrote: > Conrad Taylor wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Chris Gunnels < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > >> I am new to rails and want to figure out the syntax for truncating a > >> table using a rake file. Any ideas? thanks in advance! > > > Hi, what do you mean truncate a table? Do you mean delete the contents > > of > > the table or > > delete the table? > > > -Conrad > > delete the contents of the table
If you make your task depend on the magic :environment task then activerecord will be loaded with your database configuration (and you models etc.) and you can just do MyModel.connection.execute "..." as you would have normally or just SomeModel.delete_all if you don't care about the difference between truncate and deleting all rows. Fred --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
