Articles tagged 'activerecord'

• Stripping down Rails 3.1: Using only the database migrations

  November 23, 2011

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  This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on November 23, 2011.

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  The current project I’m working on is not using Ruby on Rails, but I still want to use ActiveRecord Migrations for the database changes.

  There are some options out there for this, and most people that I read about and had this issue just use the activerecord gem and set up their rake tasks.

  I don’t want to write my own rake tasks, since I feel that I would be reinventing the wheel. So what did I do? I created a new rails application, and stripped it down, removing everything that is not needed to run the migrations.

  First, I created a rails application called ‘deploy’ on the root folder of the application with:

  rails new deploy
  

  Then, I removed all the…

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