[LRUG] Multiple databases, migration, integration...

[Riccardo Tacconi]

Ok guys,

Sorry if I have created some confusion but I am not yet an expert in
migrations. I will need to read and write tables, although I might use
read_only_model in the future. My fear is to modifying schema of old tables,
not the data. I suppose that a table that is not defined in schema.rb will
not be touched by Rails and by using:

create_table "posts", :force => false do |t|

Any migration will modify that table (:force set to false). Since I consider
myself new to Rails, I do not know all the magic things happening behind the
scenes.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM, David Salgado <david at digitalronin.com>wrote:

> > I am still not understanding how you manage your migrations. How do you
> 'I
> > just make sure all
> > migrations happen from within the Rails codebase'? Is there a way to
> exclude
> > legacy tables from a Rails environment?
>
> No, I just don't consider them to be 'legacy' tables. I just treat
> them in exactly the same way as any other table in a rails app.
>
> I have a git project for the rails app. and a git project for the PHP
> app. Both use the same database. I only ever allow migrations in the
> rails app., even if the migration is for something in the PHP app.
> That way, the schema_migrations records in the rails app. are always
> consistent, and I don't have to worry about managing migrations that
> could have happened from PHP-land as well, which would be a nightmare.
>
> David
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