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ruby  rails  migration  database 

Related:

• Adding fields to table via migration.
• Creating migration file using generate migration
• Creation migration file using generate model.
• Drop tables using migration.
• Editing migration file manually.</li>
• Seeding data into tables via migration.
• Joining two tables via migration.
• Migration specific VERSION or STEP.
• Removing fields from tables via migration.
• Setting rails environment via migration command.
• Setup, reset and drop database
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Creating Migration File Via Rails Scaffold.

Generating `scaffold` will create a migration file that create its table as:

rails generate scaffold book title brief:text

This will generate a new file in db/migrate/(date-time stamp)_create_books.rb. Then, Apply changes to database using:

rake db:migrate

Note that you can undo this migration using:

rake db:rollback

Take a look to this tutorial video: