dbshell-rails

A Rake task to launch a database shell, using the connection parameters specified in your Rails application. The shell will be automatically connected to the current environment's database.

The following databases are supported:

• PostgreSQL (runs psql)
• MySQL (runs mysql)
• SQLite (runs sqlite3)

After being a Djangonaut for a while and then doing more work in Rails, I was surprised that it apparently has no equivalent to Django's ./manage.py dbshell command. This launcher program aims to provide that missing functionality.

Usage

$ rake dbshell
example_app_development=#

$ rails dbshell
example_app_development=#

$ RAILS_ENV=test rake dbshell
example_app_test=#

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'dbshell-rails'

And then execute:

$ bundle

License

Copyright © 2017 Teddy Wing. Licensed under the GNU LGPLv3+ (see the included COPYING & COPYING.LESSER files).