I sort of asked this the other day but with no replies. I’m new to rails
btw.
Question: Is there a preferred way to create migrations ? What I’ve
noticed
is if I create a model first , it sets up the skelton of the migration.
If I create a migration file and then do the model it attempt to create
a
migration file and not overide the one already in place. It seems to
make
sense
to me to create the model first, letting Rails do it’s thing , yet in
most
of the tutorials I’ve worked through so far it creates the migration
first.
Question: Is there a preferred way to create migrations ?
I’m not sure that there is One True Way to migrations. Personally, I
usually have a decent idea of what I want in the database. So I will
typically generate a migration, rake the migration to ensure it’s
correct, then generate the model. I’m probably still a little “old
school” too when it comes to generating application code since I often
run a generate scaffold command and flesh out the scaffold.
I like having my database table in existance for the initial scaffold
generation. :: shrug ::