"Gustavo de Sá Carvalho Honorato" <gustavohonorato wrote in post #969077: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> "Gustavo de S Carvalho Honorato" <gustavohonorato wrote in post >> #969047: >> > Hello, >> > >> > What are the good practices to deploy an Rails database in production? >> > It is >> > said that is unsafe to run database migrations in a production database, >> >> That's ridiculous. Where did you get that information? >> > > Yes, I agree with you. It's very strange, but I saw this information in > comments of generated schema.rb.
You're misinterpreting those comments. > > # This file is auto-generated from the current state of the database. > Instead of editing this file, > # please use the migrations feature of Active Record to incrementally > modify > your database, and > # then regenerate this schema definition. In other words, don't edit this file manually; let the schema dumper do it. > # > # Note that this schema.rb definition is the authoritative source for > your > database schema. If you need > # to create the application database on another system, Note: *create* the application DB, not *update* it. > you should be > using > db:schema:load, not running > # all the migrations from scratch. Note: *from scratch*. This only applies when you are creating the DB for the first time. > The latter is a flawed and > unsustainable > approach (the more migrations > # you'll amass, the slower it'll run and the greater likelihood for > issues). That is correct. > # > # It's strongly recommended to check this file into your version control > system. There is nothing here about not using migrations on the production database once it's been created. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://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.
