What does the following command do? rake db:schema:load RAILS_ENV=test ?

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1. Let’s break it down a bit

   1) RAILS_ENV=test

   This implies that whatever you do, it will affect the test environment – including the test database server.
   ie all database interactions are now with respect to the test database server.

   2) rake db:schema:load

   Loads the schema ( the database structure ) into the (test) database in one go.

   This is useful for quickly cloning the database structure used during development and testing against it when using integration tests etc.

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