Flexing Make

Make is an old tool with one job: orchestrate shell commands. It's used to build things, and is the oldest build tool there is. We can use this power to build out our database!

<span class="hljs-section">rebuild: dev change schema migrate</span>

<span class="hljs-section">migrate:</span>
  rails db:migrate

<span class="hljs-section">schema:</span>
  rails db:schema:dump

<span class="hljs-section">dev:</span>
  psql -q railz\_development &lt; db.sql

<span class="hljs-section">change:</span>
  psql -q railz\_development &lt; change.sql

<span class="hljs-meta"><span class="hljs-keyword">.PHONY</span>: dev change migrate schema db</span>

This file will run the commands in order, creating our dev database, running our SQL scripts, and finally any migrations.