Re: Combine old migrations?

Thanks, Andy! I knew there was some really easy way to do it.  I
figure, I have all my old migrations in subversion anyway, just in
case, and when will I ever really need the first couple again?  I'm
not going to roll back my entire application 

On May 16, 2:55 pm, AndyV <AndyVana...@...> wrote:
> <rant>
> @Ryan, Do you ever stop to consider that people have very good reasons
> to do things that you might not do?  I'm getting tired of seeing
> responses like "Gee I wouldn't do that" or "it's dumb to have that
> javascript turned off" or ...  It'd be a lot more helpful, if you're
> that enlightened, if you would both explain how to do it AND SUGGEST
> why it is not considered a good idea.
>
> That said, consider this.  One site that I'm working on currently has
> 150+migrationsfor about 120 tables.  By your logic I'd be dumb tocombinethem.  But it's quite
possible that this app will be deployed
> both publicly (hosting for small customers) and privately (intranet
> for very large customers).  I'm perfectly willing to keep creatingmigrationswhen necessary for the
public side, but if I am doing a
> fresh install on a private site, what sense does it make to deploy the
> 20-30migrationsthat are patched and overridden by later ones?
> Wouldn't a single, clean migration script serve those customers much
> better?
> </rant>
>
> @Stedwick -- rake db:schema:dump should give you pretty much what
> you're looking for.  I'll let you discern from the previous comments
> whether or not YOU think it's a good idea. :)
>
> Cheers.
>
> On May 15, 9:31 pm, "Ryan Bigg (Radar)" <radarliste...@...>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Not a good idea.
>
> > If you think 20 is a bad number I'd hate to see if you'd work on a big
> > project (100+migrations)- Hide quoted text -
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