Way to “flatten” Rails migrations?

Question

I\'m working on deploying my first Rails application right now, and somewhere along the way, I botched a migration. When I try to push my application to the production server an

Answer 1

If you edited the schema directly you will need to run:

rake db:schema:dump

This will take whatever is in the database and create a schema.rb file. Then you can run rake db:schema:load anytime you want. However it will mean that your migrations are still bad. You could delete all of them and recreate them from the schema.rb file.

Answer 2

This is what the db/schema.rb file is for. If you've only got structural changes in your migrations you will be able to run rake db:schema:load rather than running rake db:migrate to get the absolute structure for your tables.