From: Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuknow@...>
Date: 2009-01-12T06:15:10+09:00
Subject: Re: reccommended work flow for unit tests and databases in ruby

Phlip wrote:
>> Well I'm just getting into TDD and thats going well, but I did notice 
>> that when running rake:test, that it complains there are migrations 
>> that need to be run before the tests will be performed, even though 
>> the tests are running on a different database.
> 
> That's because the migrations (should!) happen on the Development 
> database, and this gets cloned into the Test database just before each 
> test run...
> 

So on the development database, it's safe to add the columns or whatever 
manually, update the migration to reflect the changes and test/code as 
usual. Then when the production deployment happens it uses the 
migrations from scratch?

Thanks

Matt