Question

Recently I converted from django development to fulltime rails work, it is a fairly small shop and I’m picking things up from books and on my own as I go.

Last week I was hit with a major blow to my mental model when I learned that rails’ models do not mirror the content in the database.

See example of the differences: http://www.peterkrantz.com/2009/rails-grails-django-models/

What I’m curious of, is how do I continually modify a model to support new data types and relations?

Also, is there a way to have all of the attributes in a table for a specific class shown in the models file?

Thanks

Answer 1

I think migrations are what you are looking for.

If you want all of the columns shown in the model file, use the annotate gem