diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index fe9df4b5..63d1ee48 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 # Generated by Cargo
 target
 
+# Generated databases
+db.sql
+
 # Remove Cargo.lock from gitignore if creating an executable, leave it for libraries
 # More information here http://doc.crates.io/guide.html#cargotoml-vs-cargolock
 Cargo.lock
diff --git a/examples/todo/Cargo.toml b/examples/todo/Cargo.toml
index b6ccb129..efd9e59f 100644
--- a/examples/todo/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/todo/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ authors = ["Sergio Benitez <sb@sergio.bz>"]
 rocket = { path = "../../lib" }
 rocket_macros = { path = "../../macros" }
 lazy_static = "*"
-tera = "*"
+tera = { git = "https://github.com/Keats/tera" }
 serde = "0.8"
 serde_json = "0.8"
 serde_macros = "0.8"
diff --git a/examples/todo/bootstrap.sh b/examples/todo/bootstrap.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..c41ac48a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/todo/bootstrap.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env bash
+
+SCRIPTPATH=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" ; pwd -P)
+DATABASE_URL=${SCRIPTPATH}/db/db.sql 
+
+pushd $SCRIPTPATH
+  # install the diesel CLI tools
+  cargo install diesel_cli
+
+  # create db/db.sql
+  diesel migration --database-url=$DATABASE_URL run
+popd $SCRIPTPATH
diff --git a/scripts/test.sh b/scripts/test.sh
index 4d017396..a4857a05 100755
--- a/scripts/test.sh
+++ b/scripts/test.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -e
 
-EXAMPLES_DIR="examples/"
-LIB_DIR="lib/"
-MACROS_DIR="macros/"
+EXAMPLES_DIR="examples"
+LIB_DIR="lib"
+MACROS_DIR="macros"
 
 function build_and_test() {
   local dir=$1
@@ -26,8 +26,18 @@ build_and_test $LIB_DIR
 build_and_test $MACROS_DIR
 
 for file in ${EXAMPLES_DIR}/*; do
-  echo "${file}"
   if [ -d "${file}" ]; then
+    bootstrap_script="${file}/bootstrap.sh"
+    if [ -x "${bootstrap_script}" ]; then
+      echo ":: Bootstrapping ${file}..."
+
+      if ! ./${bootstrap_script}; then
+        echo ":: Running bootstrap script (${bootstrap_script}) failed!"
+        echo ":: Skipping ${file}."
+        continue
+      fi
+    fi
+
     build_and_test "${file}"
   fi
 done