I store the schema as SQL instead of the .rb file nightmare. Here's the script to do it quickly with Postgres & bypass the Rake slowness: #!/bin/bash

I store the schema as SQL instead of the .rb file nightmare. Here's the script to do it quickly with Postgres & bypass the Rake slowness: #!/bin/bash root="/path/to/your/code" user='postgres' db='dev' schema="$root/db/schema.sql" pg_dump -U $user $db \ --schema=public \ --schema-only \ --no-owner \ --no-privileges \ --file $schema pg_dump -U $user $db \ --table public.schema_migrations \ --no-owner \ --data-only \ --insert \ >> $schema Then a trivial `dropdb`, `createdb`, `psql < db/schema.sql` And then a small script with 4 or 5 curl calls can get enough data into the database to drive some tests.