I’m playing around with engines, and want to see if I can get
migrations working with them. According to rake --tasks, the migrate
task will “migrate the database according to the migrate scripts in
db/migrate (only supported on PG/MySQL).” I assumed it would just
look in the current dir for db/migrate, but it doesn’t seem to be.
Here’s the layout of my app:
myproject
|- db
|- migrate
|- vendor
|- plugins
|- myengine
|- db
|- migrate
if I cd to vendor/plugins/myengine and run “rake migrate”, it ignores
the files in ./db/migrate. However if I copy them up to
myproject/db/migrate, it finds them fine. So my first question is how
does rake know to use RAILS_ROOT to begin with? I don’t see any
reason why it wouldn’t act in the current directory. Second, how do I
get it to run migrate on the migrations beneath the current directory?
Running migrations from external code sources is going to involve a
LOT of trust. I can see how the workflow might ideally be very
convenient, but I would strongly suggest that it’s better for you to
have all of the migrations stuff under your total control.
It’s not that I’m saying you absolutely shouldn’t… just that when
you’re actually talking about your DB, the precious data in the middle
of your Totally Sweet Rails App, I wouldn’t trust anyone to screw
around with the schema at all.
In other words, the DB schema provided with engines should only really
be used for bootstrapping and for reference, and manually integrating
it with your existing migrations will probably make your life much
easier in the long-term. DB schemas shouldn’t change between minor
versions of engines (or any code that is in beta), so if you stick to
a single release of, say, the login engine, you shouldn’t have to deal
with schema changes, ever (oh, for an ideal world…).
Pat, you might want to check out the migrations stuff that I just
added to the developer branch of Engines; I posted to the list
yesterday about it. Very much inspired by your conversation on IRC
I was thinking more like using migrations to manage the database as
the app progresses…but if I’m just working on the engine, then
obviously I don’t need to upgrade any schemas, so I’m free to just
wipe the db as necessary.
I saw the announcement, thanks for putting it up. That wasn’t you I
was talking with, was it? I’d feel pretty stupid referring to “James
Adam” if I was speaking with you
Anyway I’ll mess around with it, see if there are any problems.
Any clue about the problem with the LoginEngine not rolling back
changes when an email can’t be delivered? I spent a long time trying
to figure out why that test was failing and am just stumped.
