Rails 3.2.6 & database views creation through migrations

Question

I\'m using rails 3.2.6 and I need to create a database VIEW. As usual I created a migration and I tried to achieve the goal using the execute method.

Unfortunately the m

Answer 1

It looks like you've answered your own question, but I'll make a related suggestion. Try the rails_sql_views gem. That link goes to the original repo on GitHub. It looks like it's not being maintained anymore, though. It would be worth looking at the network graph and trying one of the forks. I'm not positive that any of the forks supports Rails 3.2.6, but I'd suggest looking through them. Christian Eichhorn added support for the mysql2 adapter about three years ago.

Answer 2

I've made a gem called rails_db_views which is compatible with Rails 4, and still maintained.

Regards,

Yacine.