Updated README and corrected some description lines that said DATABAS…

…E_ENV instead of DB and fixed the description line for the generate task

README.markdown

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Add database configuration to `db/config.yml` in your projects base directory e.
 
 ... and fill in the up and down migrations [Cheatsheet](http://dizzy.co.uk/ruby_on_rails/cheatsheets/rails-migrations).
 
-If you're lazy and want to just execute raw SQL:
+#### If you really want to, you can just execute raw SQL:
 
     def self.up
       execute "insert into foo values (123,'something');"
@@ -64,6 +64,35 @@ If you're lazy and want to just execute raw SQL:
       execute "delete from foo where field='something';"
     end
 
+#### Even better, you can use the _generate_ task to create the initial migration ####
+
+The general form is:
+
+    rake db:generate model="model_name" fields="type:column_name0 type:column_name1 ... type:column_namen"
+
+You can have as many fields as you would like.
+
+An example to create a Person table with 3 columns (and it will automatically add the t.timestamps line)
+
+    rake db:generate model="Person" fields="string:first_name string:last_name integer:age"
+
+This will create a migration in db/migrations/
+
+    class CreatePerson < ActiveRecord::Migration
+      def self.up
+        create_table :Person do |t|
+          t.string :first_name
+          t.string :last_name
+          t.integer :age   
+          t.timestamps
+        end
+      end
+
+      def self.down
+        drop_table :Person
+      end
+    end
+
 ### To apply your newest migration:
 
     rake db:migrate
@@ -111,3 +140,4 @@ This work is based on [Lincoln Stoll's blog post](http://lstoll.net/2008/04/stan
  - [Steve Hodgkiss](http://stevehodgkiss.com/)
  - [Rich Meyers](https://github.com/richmeyers)
  - [Wes Bailey](http://exposinggotchas.blogspot.com/)
+ - [Robert J. Berger](http://blog.ibd.com/)

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.4.8
+0.4.9

lib/tasks/standalone_migrations.rb

@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ def create_database(config)
       end
     end
 
-    desc 'Create the database from config/database.yml for the current DATABASE_ENV'
+    desc 'Create the database from config/database.yml for the current DB'
     task :create do
       ar_init(false)
       config = ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[self.current_env]
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ def drop_database(config)
       end
     end
 
-    desc 'Drops the database for the current DATABASE_ENV'
+    desc 'Drops the database for the current DB'
     task :drop => :ar_init do
       config = ActiveRecord::Base.configurations[current_env]
       drop_database(config)
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ def drop_database(config)
       task :prepare => ["db:#{sub_namespace_with_separator}abort_if_pending_migrations", "db:#{sub_namespace_with_separator}test:load"]
     end
 
-    desc 'generate a model=name field="field1:type field2:type"'
+    desc 'generate a model=name field="type:column_name0 type:column_name1 ... type:column_namen"'
     task :generate do
       ts = Time.now.strftime '%Y%m%d%H%%M%S'