Help

• rake db:drop deliberately ignores exceptions and does not return a non-zero error code to the shell. A pivot has a need to know that the database was, indeed dropped, without errors. How to do it? Don’t rewrite the ‘db:drop’ task; it is a messy 40+ line task that needs to connect to database adapters, etc. You could run rake db:version — it will return an exit(1) if there’s no database there.

• Can Rails scaffold handle nested resources properly? “No” was the almost instant, if not prescient response. Use one of the alternatives.

Interesting

• Alex Young’s blog post, “Bulletproof Deployment: Put Down the Pickaxe” describes a 90-line shell script that does most of what Capistrano or Vlad does.