How to rollback a specific migration?

rake db:rollback STEP=1

Is a way to do this, if the migration you want to rollback is the last one applied. You can substitute 1 for however many migrations you want to go back.

For example:

rake db:rollback STEP=5

Will also rollback all the migration that happened later (4, 3, 2 and also 1).

To roll back all migrations back to (and including) a target migration, use: (This corrected command was added AFTER all the comments pointing out the error in the original post)

rake db:migrate VERSION=20100905201547

In order to rollback ONLY ONE specific migration (OUT OF ORDER) use:

rake db:migrate:down VERSION=20100905201547

Note that this will NOT rollback any interceding migrations -- only the one listed. If that is not what you intended, you can safely run rake db:migrate and it will re-run only that one, skipping any others that were not previously rolled back.

And if you ever want to migrate a single migration out of order, there is also its inverse db:migrate:up:

rake db:migrate:up VERSION=20100905201547

rake db:migrate:down VERSION=20100905201547

will roll back the specific file.

To find the version of all migrations, you can use this command:

rake db:migrate:status

Or, simply the prefix of the migration's file name is the version you need to rollback.

See the Ruby on Rails guide entry on migrations.

To rollback the last migration you can do:

rake db:rollback

If you want to rollback a specific migration with a version you should do:

rake db:migrate:down VERSION=YOUR_MIGRATION_VERSION

For e.g. if the version is 20141201122027, you will do:

rake db:migrate:down VERSION=20141201122027

to rollback that specific migration.