Panos Matsinopoulos

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Executing Migration Commands From Rails Console

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Did you know that you can execute migration commands from rails console? Assume that you want to change the column ‘name’ of the ‘Product’ model, to have a limit of 32 characters and set it to not null. Here is what you can do:

Example of ActiveRecord Migration run from Rails Console
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$ rails c
> ActiveRecord::Migration.change_column :products, :name, :string, :limit => 32, :null => false
-- change_column(:products, :name, :string, {:limit=>32})
(38.1ms)  ALTER TABLE `products` CHANGE `name` `name` varchar(32) NOT NULL
-> 0.0396s
=> nil

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