To manipulate schema through console

ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
  # Your migrations code create_table add_column e.t.c
end

To set column as and identety using migrations and active record

By default rails will create id column that will work as an identy but some times you will have to use field name different then ID.

 ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
   execute("ALTER TABLE t_discount_set ADD discount_set_id  numeric(31,0) IDENTITY")

 end

To generate test schema without using rake db:test:prepare

I could not execute rake db:test:prepare cause it wipes everything out first, was not very safe for me.

I’ve done following

generate_schema.rb in the root of your app.

ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = 'test'

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/config/boot'
require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '/config/boot')
require 'active_record'

ActiveRecord::Schema.define do
 if RAILS_ENV == 'test'
  create_table :some_table_name,:id => false,:force => true do |t|
     t.column "id", :integer, :null => false
     t.column "name", :string, :limit => 30, :null => false
  end

 else
  puts "Please don't run me from development" 
 end
end

I wish I could use migrations(2007)

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I CAN USE MIGRATIONS NO MORE WORK AROUNDS

Some more complains :)

So I am stuck with ruby 1.8.4 ( they just don’t want to migrate ) there fore I have to use old rubygems e.t.c. So now when I am trying to generate migration i get undefined method `collect’ for #<Gem::Version::Requirement:0xb768ce48> – which translates to me tough luck. So anyways to make long story short. Rails 2.2.2 using the following strftime to generate timestamp:

Time.now.utc.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S") #=> "20090203160152"