Rails - Generating migration script from model

Question

I am learning rails, and I came across Migrations. It seems that everytime I want to edit a model, I would need to add a migration script, even though I am not yet in production

Answer 1

If your using rails 3+ you might want to consider DataMapper instead of ActiveRecord. It lets you define the data model in the model instead of multiple migration files. As I understand DataMapper lets you generate migrations from changes.

This is a tried and trusted pattern often used in the wider ORM community.