I have a little dilemma where and how to place a script in my
rails application. I work on a reimplementation and the original
database structure is changed. The old data needs to be migrated into
a new schema. The migration is executed very few times, maybe just
once. As the data set might be huge, I also do not wish to execute it
often.
Currently I placed the script in dir /script, but I think it does
not fit the place well, it is meant for other things... isn't it? I
think it should among the migrations, but I don't want it to be
executed always as the others migration when the data model is
created.
Could you give me advice, how to tackle elegantly this thing? I
want to keep my code in the rails project structure, although it will
be executed few times, maybe only now. And I'd like to have it at a
place which it fits well. Thanks for help!
I have a little dilemma where and how to place a script in my
rails application. I work on a reimplementation and the original
database structure is changed. The old data needs to be migrated into
a new schema. The migration is executed very few times, maybe just
once. As the data set might be huge, I also do not wish to execute it
often.
Currently I placed the script in dir /script, but I think it does
not fit the place well, it is meant for other things... isn't it? I
think it should among the migrations, but I don't want it to be
executed always as the others migration when the data model is
created.
The preferred way to create the DB is to use rake db:schema:load.
Migrations are only for migration. So just write the script as a
migration. That's what migrations are for.
Could you give me advice, how to tackle elegantly this thing? I
want to keep my code in the rails project structure, although it will
be executed few times, maybe only now. And I'd like to have it at a
place which it fits well. Thanks for help!
You are describing a classic use case for a migration. There's no
reason to do it any other way. If you're worried about it being run
when it shouldn't be, just throw in some if statements.
Thanks, I followed your advice. And its almost fine. The original
script operated with the models, putting it to a migration causes take
the migration misses the model. Claims "uninitialized constant" for
the model name. I tried to require the model directly. On the other
hand I am not sure whether using models in migrations is intended....
currently it seems to be the most convenient way of changing the data.
I correct myself. The problem was in my code, and thought that not
accessing the ActiveRecord::Base from Migrations is intended. No, it
is possible, sorry for the false alarm.