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Dropping and Rebuilding the Database
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It's not too difficult to have MarkUs populated with a bunch of students,
assignments, TA's, etc, while you're testing.

Sometimes, it's nice to just drop it all and start fresh, with a few users,
and a few assignments.

Here's how you can do it quickly and easily.

First, open the command line, and change directories to the root of your
local MarkUs copy.

Next, type in the following to reset your database::

    $> bundle exec rake db:reset

This will drop the database, recreate it, and load the latest version of the
schema that was in ``db/schema.rb``.  Finally, you can (optionally) populate the
database with some quick and dirty records to get you going::

    $> bundle exec rake db:seed

This runs the Ruby scripts in ``db/seed.rb``.