I'm working alone o this project so it won't be a problem. How can I do that? I mean, drop the database? I did change the migration, but when I rake db:migrate, the schema just gets back to what it was (I edited the schema too)
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Jim Ruther Nill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Rodrigo Ruiz <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thank, one more thing, is there a way to alter only the original migration >> so all the attributes stay listed in the same file and that can be easily >> altered? >> >> > The best practice would be to create a new migration everytime you want to > change the > database structure. > > Sure, you can edit the previous migrations but you have to drop your > database before you > can run the migration. Also, editing a migration will cause lots of > confusion if it's already > pushed to the remote repository and some other developers have already ran > them. > > >> >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Jim Ruther Nill <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Rodrigo Ruiz <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> I made a database with rails generate model User password:string ... >>>> now I want to delete the password attribute, because I'm going to >>>> encrypt it before saving, so I want to make an attribute with name >>>> encrypted_password instead of password. >>>> How can I do that without deleting the whole file of migration and >>>> making all from scratch? >>>> >>>> >>> you can do this by creating a *NEW *migration like >>> >>> >>> add_column :users, :encrypted_password, :string >>> # insert here the steps that will convert password to encrypted_password >>> remove_column :users, :password >>> >>> >>> or use devise/authlogic. >>> >>> >>> >>>> Thank you >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ------------------------------------------------------------- >>> visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > visit my blog at http://jimlabs.heroku.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. > -- 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.
