✨ use knex-migrator

- check database health before starting Ghost
- run knex-migrator init if database was never initialised

lib/commands/start.js

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+var KnexMigrator = require('knex-migrator');
 var BaseCommand = require('./base');
 
 module.exports = BaseCommand.extend({
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ module.exports = BaseCommand.extend({
             Promise = require('bluebird'),
             path = require('path'),
             self = this,
-            environment, config, pm, cliConfig;
+            environment, config, pm, cliConfig, knexMigrator;
 
         options = options || {};
         environment = (options.production || !options.development) ? 'production' : 'development';
@@ -44,6 +45,13 @@ module.exports = BaseCommand.extend({
 
         // TODO: rethink this
         return this.runCommand('config', 'paths.contentPath', path.join(process.cwd(), 'content'), {environment: environment})
+            .then(function () {
+                knexMigrator = new KnexMigrator();
+                return knexMigrator.isDatabaseOK()
+                    .catch(function () {
+                        return knexMigrator.init();
+                    });
+            })
             .then(function () {
                 return self.ui.run(
                     Promise.resolve(pm.start(process.cwd(), environment)),

package.json

@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
     "inquirer": "1.2.2",
     "lodash": "4.16.4",
     "log-symbols": "1.0.2",
+    "knex-migrator": "https://github.com/TryGhost/knex-migrator/tarball/master",
     "npm": "2.15.11",
     "semver": "5.3.0",
     "symlink-or-copy": "1.1.6",