Auto-generate database schema based upon model?

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From my research, it appears that I have to manually create database

tables. I was wondering if there is a gem or something else in ROR that would auto-create the database for me based upon my ruby model.

Thanks.

2

The fields themselves won't be auto created, but when you do ./script/generate model model_name, you'll also get a db migration file generated for ya.

3

You have to manually create the empty db yourself (eg mysqladmin create foo_development)

When you generate the model an empty migration is created in db\migrate. Edit this to define the table columns and then run rake db:migrate.

Read about migrations, much nicer than hand coding sql scripts.