PgDumper
Abstraction layer between PostgreSQL utility pg_dump and Rails app.
Rake tasks
You can specify few ENV variables: GZIP - to gzip sql dump with gzip utility FILE - dump output (else asks interactively) VERBOSE - verbose output Z - pg_dump compression level
db:dump
Dumps database schema with data.
db:dump:schema
Dumps database schema without data.
Credits
PgDumper uses awesome Escape library so thanks to Tanaka Akira.