#107 Migrations in Rails 2.1

Migrations now have a timestamp as their version number in Rails 2.1. In this episode I will explain this change as well as show you some other cool additions.

# in a migration file
def self.up
  change_table :products do |t|
    t.rename :released_on, :released_at
    t.change :description, :text, :limit => nil, :null => true
    t.remove :price
    t.integer :stock_quantity
  end
end

def self.down
  change_table :products do |t|
    t.rename :released_at, :released_on
    t.change :description, :string, :null => false
    t.decimal :price, :precision => 10, :scale => 2
    t.remove :stock_quantity
  end
end