Question

I am stating out learning Ruby on Rails. For that I am using “Agile Web Development with Rails 4th edition book” which basically walks you through the creation of a sample project.

Even though I am getting the basics down from it I have failed to understand what I believe is a fundamental concept. Where exactly is the relational database and how can I access it directly?

If I was using PHP/MySQL I would go to phpmyadmin and could query the data directly.

How can achieve this with SQLite3?

I am using Linux (Ubuntu) and installed ror and sqlite with gem.

Thanks.

Answer 1

From your Rails root you can access the database command line directly with:

$ sqlite3 db/development.sqlite3
SQLite version 3.7.5
Enter ".help" for instructions
Enter SQL statements terminated with a ";"
sqlite>