Made rake db:create also create the test database if you are in development mode

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake b/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake
index 2ef8676f39..8ca7c394fd 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake
@@ -26,8 +26,12 @@ namespace :db do
     end
   end
 
-  desc 'Create the database defined in config/database.yml for the current Rails.env'
+  desc 'Create the database defined in config/database.yml for the current Rails.env - also makes test database if in development mode'
   task :create => :load_config do
+    # Make the test database at the same time as the development one
+    if Rails.env == 'development'
+      create_database(ActiveRecord::Base.configurations['test'])
+    end
     create_database(ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[Rails.env])
   end