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| author | Karel Minarik <karmi@karmi.cz> | 2010-12-28 09:24:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Minarik <karmi@karmi.cz> | 2010-12-28 09:25:18 +0100 |
| commit | e2c2c2983a83ed53e2287a936a0ab59080be16f6 (patch) | |
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Added TIP box with information about the `--database` switch for the application generator in the "Getting Started" guide
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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile index 43525d7a57..97c050ded3 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/getting_started.textile @@ -258,6 +258,8 @@ development: Change the username and password in the +development+ section as appropriate. +TIP: You don't have to update the database configurations manually. If you had a look at the options of application generator, you have seen that one of them is named <tt>--database</tt>. It lets you choose an adapter for couple of most used relational databases. You can even run the generator repeatedly: <tt>cd .. && rails new blog --database=mysql</tt>. When you confirm the overwriting of the +config/database.yml+ file, your application will be configured for MySQL instead of SQLite. + h4. Creating the Database Now that you have your database configured, it's time to have Rails create an empty database for you. You can do this by running a rake command: |