Thanks Marnen. Regarding writing a migration that changes the name of the table, for some reason I feel like this situation is going to happen frequently and that could fill up the migrations. GIven that I'm only a few weeks into development and I have no real data, for some reason I feel it'd be cleaner to revert the book migration and add one that's correct?
On Sep 20, 10:32 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > nobosh wrote: > > Hello, I've been building an app recently that has a model Books > > That should be Book. Rails model names are singular by convention. > Table names are plural. > > > that > > is a database table > > No! Models are not database tables; please don't think of them that > way. They *refer* to database tables, but the Ruby objects and the DB > records and tables are not the same thing. > > > and linked to several models/controllers. I > > recently learned that instead of Books it needs to be called > > publications (just an example)... > > > I now want to update the database and all the mentions throughout the > > app. Is there a simple way to do that in Rails 3. Or do I have to > > migrate that particular table (via version?) > > Version? Huh? Just write a migration that changes the name of the > table. > > Note also that you can use set_table_name to specify a different table > name than the one Rails would expect. Thus, you can change the class > name or the table name without also changing the other. I wouldn't > advise breaking the Rails conventions unless you have a good reason to. > > > and manually update all > > the references throughout the app? > > Yup. Your automated tests will break when they encounter the old class > name and let you know where to change it. > > > > > Thanks > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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 [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-talk?hl=en.
