"Gustavo de Sá Carvalho Honorato" <gustavohonorato wrote in post #969047: > Hello, > > What are the good practices to deploy an Rails database in production? > It is > said that is unsafe to run database migrations in a production database,
That's ridiculous. Where did you get that information? > instead we should use schema.rb and seed.rb scripts. As far as I know, > schema.rb can just be used to create initial schemas, That's correct. When you set up a new installation, run rake db:schema:load instead of running all the migrations. But that's the only time you'd do that. > so, what are the > procedures to update the database schema in production? Use the migrations. That's what they're for. > > Thanks, > Gustavo Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
