A rails plugin to allow you to isolate data fixes & transforms from schema changes.
Migrations should be runnable from a fresh project checkout and a blank database. The problem with migrations that change data is that they are often dependant on the state of the codebase at the time they are run.
The data_migrations plugin creates a separate folder db/data_migrations to store these data fixes and a data_migrations table comparable to schema_info. It reuses most of the standard Rails migration functionality, so you can do pretty much anything with them you can do with migrations.
script/plugin install git://github.com/knaveofdiamonds/data_migrations.git script/generate data_migration my_migration edit db/data_migrations/timestamp_my_migration.rb just like a normal migration rake db:data_migrations:apply
This plugin is for Rails 2.3.5 - it almost certainly doesn’t work on Rails 3.
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Fork the project.
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Make your feature addition or bug fix.
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Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
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Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
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Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
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