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Migration: Adding/Removing columns are now much easier

You may have noticed by now, that in Rails 2.0 changeset 7422, you can specify columns you want to add/remove in your migration by passing attribute:type pairs to the migration generator.

For example, lets assume that we need to add a column ‘role’ in users table(User model). In this case generate a migration like:

Output:

Here AddRoleToUser plays the main role. ‘Add’ specifies the we want to add column(s) and ‘User’ separated by ‘To’ specifies the table.

Similarly, if we need to remove a column ‘role’ :

Output:

Here RemoveRoleFromUser plays the main role. ‘Remove’ specifies the we want to remove column(s) and ‘User’ separated by ‘From’ specifies the table.

Isn’t it cool?