Rails Migration in Your CakePHP application.

Manage your database like a PRO :) ================================= Today I wrote something that may help you in your cakephp application. Managing database is a pain. If you ever have used rails. Switching between rails and cakephp I always missed the migration thingy. If you use composer.phar then its fairly simple to use this code. And I believe application nowdays are not bound to one programming language. So your next application can be a hybrid application that uses Ruby and PHP :) ….. You find the code in github. https://github.com/rajibahmed/rake-db-migrator

Rails Less Migration =====================

Today I was wanted to use rails goodness inside of my php project. So, I searched online found a solution somewhere. Fixed it up for any project to use using composer.

I assume you are using tools listed below and know how to use command line.

• POSIX OS
• Ruby the programming Language
• Rake the build tool written in Ruby
• Activerecord gem, defaults with Rails !!!!

To enable it, add this dependency to your composer.json file:

"rajibahmed/rake-db-migrator": "dev"

Or Find it here rajibahmed/rake-db-migrator

Step 1: To enable it in your application you need to create few directories from you terminal :)

$ mkdir -p db/migrate
$ mkdir config

Note 1: You do not need to create the structure if you already have it. Note 2: I have provided a demo database.yml configuration file copy over to config folder.

Step 2: symlink my rake file to root of you project.

$ ln -s vendor/rajibahmed/rake-db-migrator/Rakefile .

Step 3: You are done !!

So now you can use this rake file to create and migrate you configured database. Available Rake tasks are,

rake db:create    # Create the database from config/database.yml for the current DATABASE_ENV
 rake db:drop      # Drops the database for the current DATABASE_ENV
 rake db:generate  # Generate migration files
 rake db:migrate   # Migrate the database (options: VERSION=x, VERBOSE=false).
 rake db:rollback  # Rolls the schema back to the previous version (specify steps w/ STEP=n).
 rake db:version   # Retrieves the current schema version number

Now, Running

rake db:generate

Will create a template file that you can use as a reference point for writing your first migration.

Note[IMPORTANT] : Class name in a migration file must match the file naming convention. ie.

CreateUser < ActiveRecord::Migration
 # file name should be timestramp_create_user.rb
 end

You are good to go !!! This is a few hours effort. If you want to extend it please fork it or send me emails.

LICENSE: Do whatever you want with it. I don’t want money from you and can’t be held responsible any fu*k ups. Good luck !!! Simple isn’t it.