Question

I have inherited a Ruby on Rails project where the programmer didn’t use rake to create the db schema, so it seems very out of synch, is there a way to rectify this?

Answer 1

First create a schema.rb file

rake db:schema:dump

Then make a migration ot of it.

class CreateMigration < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    # insert schema.rb here
  end

  def self.down
  end
end

You might also need to create the schema_migrations table, and manually add the timestamp for this migration to it.