Ruby on Rails

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 5:06 PM, kenatsun <kenatsun@gmail.com> wrote:

> 10. An odd note is that there still is no schema.rb file in x/db/. If this
> is what Rails uses as its "database catalog", is the lack of it going to
> cause trouble down the road?

Possibly, but you can use `rake db:schema:dump` to generate it
from your existing DB.

> My next question is whether it is possible to sue the amazing Rails
> generators - in particular, scaffold - to more quickly create an app that
> works with an existing database - so it would not be necessary to go thru
> all those manual steps shown above. I tried it once, and it tried to run
> the migrator

I've never seen a scaffold command automatically run migrations;
can you be more specific about what led up to that?

You should be able to scaffold a model and then just delete the
migration file.

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