Does rake db:schema:dump recreate schema.rb from migrations or the database itself?

Question

Does

rake db:schema:dump 

recreate schema.rb from migrations or the database itself?

Answer 1

The answer is simple: from the database.

By the way - when you take a look into the source code of db:* tasks you can see that migration tasks calls schema:dump after the run

desc "Migrate the database (options: VERSION=x, VERBOSE=false)." task :migrate => :environment do   ActiveRecord::Migration.verbose = ENV["VERBOSE"] ? ENV["VERBOSE"] == "true" : true   ActiveRecord::Migrator.migrate("db/migrate/", ENV["VERSION"] ? ENV["VERSION"].to_i : nil)   Rake::Task["db:schema:dump"].invoke if ActiveRecord::Base.schema_format == :ruby end 

So the migration works in the way that it change the database and then generate schema.rb file.