With all of these threads about schema.rb format - would it just be easier to allow you to specify your own formatter? Have something that responds to format_for(table, columns) or something to that effect? The issue here is that everyone is going to want something different from that file.
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Matias Korhonen <korhonen.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > -- > 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. > -- *Kevin D. Deisz* *TrialNetworks* - part of DrugDev Software Developer 383 Elliot Street, Suite G Newton, MA 02464 +1 617.952.4071 x134 (office) +1 703.615.0396 (mobile) kde...@trialnetworks.com -- 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.
