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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile b/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile index 9c92d567d3..ec812f9e13 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/migrations.textile @@ -628,7 +628,11 @@ There is no need (and it is error prone) to deploy a new instance of an app by r For example, this is how the test database is created: the current development database is dumped (either to +db/schema.rb+ or +db/development.sql+) and then loaded into the test database. -Schema files are also useful if you want a quick look at what attributes an Active Record object has. This information is not in the model's code and is frequently spread across several migrations but is all summed up in the schema file. The "annotate_models":http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/annotate_models plugin, which automatically adds (and updates) comments at the top of each model summarizing the schema, may also be of interest. +Schema files are also useful if you want a quick look at what attributes an Active Record object has. This information is not in the model's code and is +frequently spread across several migrations, but is summed up in the schema +file. The "annotate_models":http://github.com/ctran/annotate_models +gem automatically adds and updates comments at the top of each model summarizing +the schema if you desire that functionality. h4. Types of Schema Dumps |