Ruby on Rails Friday, September 1, 2017

So I basicaly recreate the tables from scratch manualy, using rails to create them.  I was worried importing the data may be a bit fiddely if I did this (quess I can force rails to use specific data types).  Was hoping there was a way rails could help with this.  It may be only a few tables but there are quite a few columns.

On Friday, September 1, 2017 at 2:56:35 PM UTC+1, Ben Edwards wrote:
Hi, I have a fairly simple database with a few tables and want to build a rails app on it.  I know I need to do some changes to make it conform to ActiveRecord conventions but when I have done that how do I best access it from rails?  I have found this, https://codeburst.io/how-to-build-a-rails-app-on-top-of-an-existing-database-baa3fe6384a0 whitch looks usefull (and done a load of googleing) but figured this must be something that people have done before and documenter in a guide/howto.  Can someone point me in the wright direction?

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On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Ben Edwards <login@funkytwig.com> wrote:
> Hi, I have a fairly simple database with a few tables and want to build a
> rails app on it. I know I need to do some changes to make it conform to
> ActiveRecord conventions but when I have done that how do I best access it
> from rails?

Really, all you need to do is generate a new rails app with postgres
specified as the database and configure it to use the existing DB
(presumably the copy you've modified to be more AR-compliant).

That "schema_to_scaffold" gem *might* be useful -- it looks pretty
old so hard to tell without trying it -- but if you have "a few" tables
then creating AR Models from them manually won't be a lot of work.

Do make use of `git` to save your work as you go -- you'll probably
wind up throwing away some experiments :-)

HTH,
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Hi, I have a fairly simple database with a few tables and want to build a rails app on it.  I know I need to do some changes to make it conform to ActiveRecord conventions but when I have done that how do I best access it from rails?  I have found this, https://codeburst.io/how-to-build-a-rails-app-on-top-of-an-existing-database-baa3fe6384a0 whitch looks usefull (and done a load of googleing) but figured this must be something that people have done before and documenter in a guide/howto.  Can someone point me in the wright direction?

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