Ruby on Rails Database with foreign keys?

Rails
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Hi,

I started a project on Ruby on Rails some time ago when the migration
feature wasn’t part of Rails. I used to have one big SQL file that
creates the whole database and adds the foreign constraints. They
looked like that:

CONSTRAINT FK_users_countries
FOREIGN KEY FK_users_countries (country_id)
REFERENCES countries(country_id)
ON DELETE RESTRICT
ON UPDATE RESTRICT

Now I want to use migration features so I used

rake db:schema:dump

When I look at the schema.rb file i don’t like what i see ;(. All the
tables are there but the are no primary keys and also there are no
Foreign Keys.

My question is can i use the ruby way to create foreign keys? And why

rake db:schema:dump

doesn’t work?

Nikola

2

Rails nerds are not big on FKs - I don’t like it but if want to play
along - learn to.

You can put FK constraints in your migrations as SQL statements -
execute “”" ALTER … “”"

The FK don’t show up in the schema.rb - See first statement above

They cause problems with fixtures - See first statement above

On Mar 25, 2:53 pm, “[email protected]”

3

google for the foreign key migrations plugin from redhill consulting. I
use
that on my rails apps and it works great.

4

There is a plugin, from RedHill consulting, that allow you create FK´s:
http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/rails_plugins.html

2007/3/25, dysinger [email protected]:

They cause problems with fixtures - See first statement above

CONSTRAINT FK_users_countries
tables are there but the are no primary keys and also there are no

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