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Asked: May 25, 20262026-05-25T12:05:01+00:00 2026-05-25T12:05:01+00:00

I want to delete a table in my rails app but i cannot use

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I want to delete a table in my rails app but i cannot use rollback, because i created this table a long time ago, and i have a LOT of other tables created since that one.

How is supposed to be named a drop table migration file and is there a way to genrate it with rails generate?

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    2026-05-25T12:05:01+00:00Added an answer on May 25, 2026 at 12:05 pm

    Create one more migration to drop the table. The class should have the method

    def self.up
      drop_table :table_name
    end
    

    Be careful as you will not be able to rollback to get all the data you will lose while dropping the table.

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