>>> What is the best(easiest...) way to get all the data from a production
>>> DB, so I can throw it onto my development DB, and use it locally?
>> 
>> If it's the same database type then just dump it out of production, copy
>> the dump file to your development machine and import it.
>> 
>> If it's not the same database type, you might look into taps...
>> http://rubygems.org/gems/taps
>> 
>> -philip
> 
> Sweet! Thanks for the link. That's pretty awesome.
> 
> Ok, so, I've never actually done a data dump or import before. Both my 
> production, and development databases are using MySQL (the production 
> being on a server). Is there a rake task that creates a SQL file? I know 
> there's rake db:structure:dump, but I'm not sure if this actually will 
> throw all the data into the SQL file, or just the overall structure of 
> the DB like the schema.

Just the structure...

> I also need to make sure that whatever command 
> this is, doesn't just drop my production DB (Don't need a "github 
> incident") lol.

Read up on mysqldump.

-philip

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