RoR: Using Yaml_db to copy Prod data/schema to Non-prod Environments
This morning, I took a snapshot of a production, Ruby on Rails database (via rake db:dump), and then applied the production / schema data to other environments.
- System information:
- Database is Oracle 11
- Application server runs Redhat Enterprise Linux
- Assumptions and challenges:
- The Development and QA (Quality Assurance) instances are probably not at the same software revisions or migration version numbers. So… keep that in mind.
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