Thank a bunch, I will look into it.

Blair Zajac wrote:
> Leon Yeh wrote:
> 
>>Hi All, I have just started using Rake, I usually use ant, but got 
>>caught the Ruby fever :-)
>>
>>I have been using RoR for web development and in need rake to do data 
>>migration. I wanted to build a hirarchical build system similar to 
>>Makefile. Example below
>>
>>
>>\database_migration
>>      Rakefile
>>      \task_migrate_empTable
>>              Rakefile
>>              drop_empTable.rb
>>              create_empTable.rb
>>              ..
>>      \task_migrate_salesTable
>>              Rakefile
>>              drop_salesTable.rb
>>              create_salesTable.rb
> 
> 
> You may want to look at using Ruby on Rails' migrations, which are very close 
> to 
> what you have here.  They offer some great features, plus the automatic 
> running 
> of migrations in the proper order to bring your database up to or back down 
> to a 
> specific level.
> 
> Here's some URLs for it:
> 
> http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Migration.html
> http://jamis.jamisbuck.org/articles/2005/09/27/getting-started-with-activerecord-migrations
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/UnderstandingMigrations
> http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/archives/2005/09/27/database-agnostic-schemas-with-migrations
> http://glu.ttono.us/articles/2005/10/27/the-joy-of-migrations
> 
> Regards,
> Blair
> 
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