Rails Goodness : How to Test/Update Your Migration, Add a forgotten index

Once you have create a migration say,

class CreateEmployees < ActiveRecord::Migration
def change
create_table :employees do |t|
t.string :first_name
t.string :last_name
t.string :icon
t.integer :emp_id
t.timestamps
end
end
end



And now lets say you need to add an index to it, below are the steps

Step1. Rollback the current migration

 RAILS_ENV=development rake db:rollback            

Step2 Add the Index to the migration manually

class CreateEmployees < ActiveRecord::Migration
def change
create_table :employees do |t|
t.string :first_name
t.string :last_name
t.string :icon
t.integer :emp_id

t.timestamps
end
add_index :employees, [:first_name]
end
end

Step3. Test the migration by moving 10 steps behind in schema.rb and then redoing till current




 RAILS_ENV=development rake db:migrate:redo STEP=10

The Steps can be any number, just to ensure robustness that schema.rb retains its current state

Thank you

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