How about some sort of normalize_schema option that could be turned off if required? I can't imagine that all that many developers are taking advantage of specific column ordering. For one thing, PostgreSQL doesn't allow you to reorder columns <https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alter_column_position> (without going to a whole lot of trouble).
The constant non-meaningful changes to the schema.rb file seem like a distraction that end up masking what might be important changes. Anyone on the Rails Core team want to chime in whether a PR like this might be accepted? — Matias On Saturday, 17 January 2015 12:01:52 UTC+2, vesan wrote: > > When multiple people are working on a single Rails codebase and they add > migrations with new columns (or tables) and run the migrations in different > order there is a problem with schema.rb. After this every time migrations > are run the columns swap places if the previous version of the schema.rb > file has been commited by the other developer who did run the migrations in > different order. > > Because of this the developers have to discard the lines where columns > swap places to keep the source control clean. Could this be fixed by > putting the tables and columns on schema.rb in alphabetical order? Or are > people relying on the database's order of the tables and columns? > > It seems you could implement it by sticking `.sort_by(&:name)` to > https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/3f96b6973b82ad17e443dd1d21be05996fb6fbf0/activerecord/lib/active_record/schema_dumper.rb#L134 > > – Vesa Vänskä > ve...@vesavanska.com <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
