Run a single migration file

Question

Is there an easy way to run a single migration? I don\'t want to migrate to a certain version I just want to run a specific one.

Answer 1

Looks like at least in the latest Rails release (5.2 at the time of writing) there is one more way of filtering the migrations being ran. One can pass a filter in a SCOPE environment variable which would be then used to select migration files.

Assuming you have two migration files 1_add_foos.rb and 2_add_foos.run_this_one.rb running

SCOPE=run_this_one rails db:migrate:up

will select and run only 2_add_foos.run_this_one.rb. Keep in mind that all migration files matching the scope will be ran.

Answer 2

If you want to run a specific migration, do

$ rake db:migrate:up VERSION=20080906120000

If you want to run migrations multiple times, do

# use the STEP parameter if you need to go more than one version back
$ rake db:migrate:redo STEP=3

If you want to run a single migration multiple times, do

# this is super useful
$ rake db:migrate:redo VERSION=20080906120000

(you can find the version number in the filename of your migration)

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Edit: You can also simply rename your migration file, Eg:

20151013131830_my_migration.rb -> 20151013131831_my_migration.rb

Then migrate normally, this will treat the migration as a new one (usefull if you want to migrate on a remote environment (such as staging) on which you have less control.

Edit 2: You can also just nuke the migration entry in the database. Eg:

rails_c> q = "delete from schema_migrations where version = '20151013131830'"
rails_c> ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute(q)

rake db:migrate will then rerun the up method of the nuked migrations.

Answer 3

Method 1 :

rake db:migrate:up VERSION=20080906120000

Method 2:

In Rails Console 1. Copy paste the migration class in console (say add_name_to_user.rb) 2. Then in console, type the following

Sharding.run_on_all_shards{AddNameToUser.up}

It is done!!

Answer 4

You can just run the code directly out of the ruby file:

rails console
>> require "db/migrate/20090408054532_add_foos.rb"
>> AddFoos.new.up

Note: Very old versions of rails may require AddFoos.up rather than AddFoos.new.up.

An alternative way (without IRB) which relies on the fact that require returns an array of class names:

script/runner 'require("db/migrate/20090408054532_add_foos.rb").first.constantize.up'

Note that if you do this, it won't update the schema_migrations table, but it seems like that's what you want anyway.

Additionally, if it can't find the file you may need to use require("./db/..." or try require_relative depending on your working directory

Answer 5

This are the steps to run again this migration file "20150927161307_create_users.rb"

1. Run the console mode. (rails c)

2. Copy and past the class which is in that file to the console.

   class CreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
     def change
       create_table :users do |t|
         t.string :name
         t.string :email
         t.timestamps null: false   end
       end
     end
   end
   

3. Create an instance of the class CreateUsers: c1 = CreateUsers.new

4. Execute the method change of that instance: c1.change

Answer 6

Please notice that instead of script/runner, you may have to use rails runner on new rails environments.