I’ve been working on a plugin that uses the ruby feed_tools module to
create a little mini-planet in the sidebar. This is actually the
blog plugin that I’ve always wanted, and thanks to ruby, rails and
typo, I was able to code it up relatively easily.
However, feed tools uses a database feed cache to store feeds, so
that it doesn’t fetch the feeds every time the page loads. On my
development database, I have added a cached_feeds table. So now I’m
worried that if I make the same alterations to my production db,
It’ll strand my typo install at whatever rev I’m at, without being
able to upgrade.
Is there any way I can incorporate my database changes so that it’ll
co-operate with the rails migration process nicely.
I just installed the database migration by hand like this, on r946
mattrose@venice:~/rails/typo$ script/generate migration
add_feed_tools_tables
exists db/migrate
create db/migrate/041_add_feed_tools_tables.rb
and edited db/migrate/041_add_feed_tools_tables.rb to look like this
mattrose@venice:~/rails/typo$ cat db/migrate/
041_add_feed_tools_tables.rb
class AddFeedToolsTables < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
create_table :cached_feeds do |t|
t.column :href, :string
t.column :title, :string
t.column :link, :string
t.column :feed_data, :text
t.column :feed_data_type, :string
t.column :http_headers, :text
t.column :last_retrieved, :datetime
end
end
def self.down
drop_table :cached_feeds
end
end
Now when I try to log in, I get an error updating the db
To fix it I have to issue:
mv db/migrate/041_add_feed_tools_tables.rb db/migrate/
41_add_feed_tools_tables.rb
and then my update proceeds.
Now I can go ahead and install the sidebar plugin
Now, that you know what I’m doing, can anyone tell me how to
a) Make this process easier?
b) Make sure it co-operates with later db migrations
TIA
Matt