Rails: Alter migrations during early development phases

Question

During the very early phases of development in a Rails app, I prefer to modify the migrations files directly to add new columns (fields) to my tables (models) instead of piling

Answer 1

Cleanest solution, driven from Vijay Dev's solution is to create a rake task:

namespace :db do
  desc "Drops, recreates and seeds the database."
  task :reload => [:drop, :create, :migrate, :seed] do
    Rake::Task['db:drop'].invoke
    Rake::Task['db:create'].invoke
    Rake::Task['db:migrate'].invoke
    Rake::Task['db:seed'].invoke
  end
end