Add a rake task for backing up the DB

Gemfile

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ gem 'bootstrap-sass'
 gem 'bootstrap-sass-extras'
 gem 'bootswatch-rails'
 gem 'autoprefixer-rails'
-gem "font-awesome-rails"
+gem 'font-awesome-rails'
 
 group :development do
   gem 'spring'

lib/tasks/backup.rake

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Copyright Dimitar Dimitrov, 2011
+
+desc "Generates an SQL dump of the production database in the destination path provided as an argument."
+task :backup, [:destination] => :environment do |t, args|
+  conf = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.instance_variable_get :@config
+  cmd = "PGPASSWORD=#{conf[:password]} pg_dump -U #{conf[:username]} --inserts #{conf[:database]} -p #{conf[:port]} -h #{conf[:host]} > #{args.destination}"
+  silent = Rake.application.options.silent
+  puts "Backing up '#{conf[:database]}' into: #{args.destination}" unless silent
+  if system(cmd)
+    puts 'Backup completed.' unless silent
+  else
+    puts "Backup failed!\nCommand exit status: #{$?}\nCommand was: #{cmd}"
+  end
+end