Easiest way to port a data model to Rails migration

Question

I have designed a data model which has almost 24 tables. I have finished specifying the relations and all the data types are finalized. Now, I want to convert it to migrations in Rails.

I have all the scripts ready for it to be created in MySQL. Is there any tool that converts all the table creation queries into a single Rails migration file?

Thanks

Answer 1

I haven't done it myself but according to this post on the ruby forums

rake db:schema:dump

should be sufficient (delete the schema.rb beforehand).

The almost same question here on SO: Ruby / Rails - Reverse Migration - DDL to Ruby Code