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title: Preparing the Database
---

# Preparing the database

The next step is to create and prepare the database. Because DEV is a Rails
application, we have built-in tools to help us.

We can use Rails to create our database, load the schema, and add some seed
data:

```shell
rails db:setup
```

Note: If you've already run `bin/setup`, this will have already been done for
you.

`db:setup` actually runs the following rake commands in order so alternatively,
you could run each of these to produce the same result:

```shell
rails db:create
rails db:schema:load
rails db:seed
```