Create a Migration from an existing table?

If I have a table in MySQL on an existing Rails project, how do I go to
creating a migration for it? All the examples I see online seem to be
geared to creating models and tables from a migration – but how do I go
the other way and create a migration itself from a table? Thank you.

On 15 November 2012 16:01, RVince [email protected] wrote:

If I have a table in MySQL on an existing Rails project, how do I go to
creating a migration for it? All the examples I see online seem to be geared
to creating models and tables from a migration – but how do I go the other
way and create a migration itself from a table? Thank you.

Why would you want to create a migration if you already have the table?

Colin

On Nov 15, 2012, at 11:01 AM, RVince wrote:

If I have a table in MySQL on an existing Rails project, how do I go to creating
a migration for it? All the examples I see online seem to be geared to creating
models and tables from a migration – but how do I go the other way and create a
migration itself from a table? Thank you.

Look in the schema.rb. That’s your “up” method, and “down” is always the
same: drop_table :foo.

Walter

I have to commit my code changes on this specific project and it has to
comport to having a migration for a new db table that was required here.
I
could cobble one by hand, but I think that’s even more kludgey! I assume
it
isn’t possible to go from a table to a migration? Thanks.