> Josh's rake task looks like it provides a nice ability to load data > via Rake. But there is an inconsistent message being sent by Rails: > > Use Migrations. Use Migrations. Use Migrations. > > Except for testing, where we'll use a limited, one-off method (schema > dumper) ensuring that you'll never know if your migrations are broken > until it's too late.
You run your migrations against your development database, it's hardly as bad as you're implying :). > Is there a good reason for the avoidance of migrations for building > the test DB, or is the use of schema dumper just a vestige of days > gone by? I continue to be surprised by the lack of comments from the > core team on this thread (Koz's early comment being the only one) and > the lack of feedback on ticket 8389. Migrations are designed for cases where the data in your db matters, with cases like a test database you might as well just drop and recreate every table. But more than that, *most* of the migrations in my current application (200ish out of 300ish) are for maintaining *data*, they don't make schema changes at all. Things like fixing up data after a bug messed it up, changing the prices of various plans, altering lookup data Etc. My test database doesn't need to know about them. Schema.rb works fine, I'm not sure what additional benefits you're looking for. > For those of you that have bought into migrations like I have, add > your thoughts (or improvements) to the patch on ticket 8389. > > -Chris > > > On Nov 28, 5:22 pm, "Josh Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/13/07, Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 1 ) What, then, is the preferred mechanism for "seed" data in the > > > database? Currently, many people use migrations to insert bootstrap > > > data. If schema.rb will be used for tasks like db:reset, none of this > > > data will be loaded. > > > > I've written a simple rake task that loads any .rb files found within > > the RAILS_ROOT/db/fixtures/RAILS_ENV directory. I've bundled it up as > > a plugin if anyone else wants to try it > > out:http://code.google.com/p/db-populate/. README, examples, etc. to come > > soon. > > > > -- > > Josh Knowles > > phone: 509-979-1593 > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > web: http://joshknowles.com > > > -- Cheers Koz --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
