On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Aldric Giacomoni <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Quee WM wrote: >> I have an application in rails in which i am adding a new column in one >> of the tables. The value for the new column is a bit.ly link and I need >> to populate this for each record in the table approx. 250 rows will be >> affected. >> >> One suggestion that has been made is to use migrations but I am not 100% >> on how i can do that... >> > > A migration is a Ruby script. > The Rails sugar helps you tell the application (for instance): > "Hey there! I need you to add a column to this table. And while you're > at it, check every row, and do this on every row, so we can populate > that new column." > If the value of the column is the same for every row, can't you just use default value when you create the column?
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