How to restart your Ruby on Rails database

If you’re still early in the development phase of your app, you might want to restart your database so that you can have a “fresh” start.

If you run the following command:

rake db:reset

Your database will be dropped and it will be recreated using whatever is currently stored in your db/schema.rb file.

Before you run the reset command, you can also modify that schema file to add/remove any tables or columns as you see fit. You can also safely delete any migration files you have inside of db/migrations.