Rails remove old models with migrations

Question

I have a bunch of rails models that i\'m re-writing into a single model to simplify my code and reduce unnecessary tables.

I\'m wondering what the best way to delete a

Answer 1

All in one solution.

Run the following commands:

rails destroy model ModelName
rails g migration DropTableModelName

The former will generate a new migration file which should looks like this:

class DropTableModelName < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    drop_table :model_name
  end
end

Now run db:migrate and you're done.