How to change a Ruby on Rails application name?

Question

I have a Ruby on Rails application that was created using:

rails new old_name -d mysql

Now I want to change the application name to be new_name.

Just changing the application folder name will not be enough, because the database name, for example, also has to be changed (from old_name_development to new_name_development). I wonder if there are other places in the automatically generated files that needs changing.

Is there any built in command for changing the application name ?

Answer 1

In Rails 3, there are references to the application name in the following files:

• config/application.rb
• config/environment.rb
• config/environments/development.rb
• config/environments/production.rb
• config/environments/test.rb
• config/initializers/secret_token.rb
• config/initializers/session_store.rb
• config/mongoid.yml (if using Mongoid)
• config/routes.rb
• config.ru
• Rakefile
• app/views/layouts/application.html.erb, in title tag