# Migration with active records

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/migration-with-active-records/71426>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [December 11, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/migration-with-active-records/71426 "2015-12-11T02:02:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Manuel\_Shenavai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Manuel\_Shenavai](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Manuel_Shenavai)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/migration-with-active-records/71426/1 "2015-12-11T02:02:44Z")

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Hi everyone, I got a question regarding active records. Im new to ruby as well as active records. As mentioned [here](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_basics.html#migrations), its possible to migrate database schema with active records. “Rails provides a domain-specific language for managing a database schema called migrations. Migrations are stored in files which are executed against any **database that Active Record supports** using `rake`.”

I wonder where I can look up the databases supported by active records. Anyone knows?

thanks in advance.

regards

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**Author:** ![Colin\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Colin\_Law](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Colin_Law)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/migration-with-active-records/71426/2 "2015-12-11T09:04:45Z")

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> Hi everyone,
> 
> I got a question regarding active records. Im new to ruby as well as active records.
> 
> As mentioned here, its possible to migrate database schema with active records. "Rails provides a domain-specific language for managing a database schema called migrations. Migrations are stored in files which are executed against any database that Active Record supports using rake."
> 
> I wonder where I can look up the databases supported by active records. Anyone knows?

I assume you already know about the databases supported 'out of the box' (mysql, sqlite and postresql) as any initial cursory investigation of rails would have shown that. As for others I doubt whether there is a definitive list as anyone could write a gem to support a database of their choice. More helpful would be ask about any ones you are particularly interested in. Even there, though, google would probably give you a quicker and more accurate result.

If you want to get into Rails development then I strongly advise working right through a good tutorial (such as railstutorial.org, which is free to use online) as that will introduce you to the basics of rails.

Colin