Hi community, I''m a fairly new developer. I created a project in rails to learn with, and created a model for ''computer''. I edited the appropriate 001_create_computer.rb migration file, and as part of it, included a line: t.column :cost, :decimal Later, learning more about rails, I went back and changed the line to look like this: t.column :cost, :decimal, :precision => 8, :scale => 2, :default => 0 What I can''t figure out is, what do I do to rebuild the database? rake db:migrate seems to ignore the old 001 file. I assume I need to do something like rake db:rebuild, to go back and start from scratch and apply all the migration scripts, but I can''t find the appropriate command. If anyone knows what step or steps I need to take, I would greatly appreciate it. Also, is this the proper way to make such a change? I think I could add another migration file, 005-blah-blah.rb, and change the column there, but I see no value in keeping the original column declaration since it is essentially incomplete. Thank you for your advice! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
When you are in development you can edit the migrations and rebuild the database. For production you should always create new migrations that modify the existing database of course. rake db:migrate VERSION=0 rake db:migrate The above sequence will drop all your tables and rebuild the database. You can also use variations on this to backup and restore part of the schema to test upgrades of production databases. Michael On May 28, 12:13 pm, Big Dave Smith <bigdave.sm...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Hi community, > > I''m a fairly new developer. I created a project in rails to learn > with, and created a model for ''computer''. I edited the appropriate > 001_create_computer.rb migration file, and as part of it, included a > line: > t.column :cost, :decimal > > Later, learning more about rails, I went back and changed the line to > look like this: > t.column :cost, :decimal, :precision => 8, :scale => 2, :default => 0 > > What I can''t figure out is, what do I do to rebuild the database? > rake db:migrate seems to ignore the old 001 file. I assume I need to > do something like rake db:rebuild, to go back and start from scratch > and apply all the migration scripts, but I can''t find the appropriate > command. If anyone knows what step or steps I need to take, I would > greatly appreciate it. > > Also, is this the proper way to make such a change? I think I could > add another migration file, 005-blah-blah.rb, and change the column > there, but I see no value in keeping the original column declaration > since it is essentially incomplete. Thank you for your advice!--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
On 5/28/07, Big Dave Smith <bigdave.smith-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> What I can''t figure out is, what do I do to rebuild the database? > rake db:migrate seems to ignore the old 001 file. I assume I need to > do something like rake db:rebuild, to go back and start from scratch > and apply all the migration scripts, but I can''t find the appropriate > command...Dave, here a a couple of tasks from my template lib/tasks/db.rake file. Hope they help you out. namespace :db do desc "Empty the current database" task :purge => :environment do return unless %w[development test staging].include? RAILS_ENV config = ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[RAILS_ENV] ActiveRecord::Base.connection.recreate_database(config[''database'']) ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection end desc "Migrate with catlike tread" task :migrate_quietly => :environment do ActiveRecord::Migration.verbose = false Rake::Task[''db:migrate''].invoke end desc "Empty and recreate the current database" task :remigrate => [:purge, :migrate_quietly] end A few of the tasks recently committed to edge would make these easier/obsolete, too. ~ j. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---