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New DRYML – Part 1
Posted by Tom | July 21, 2007 10 Responses

As I’ve mentioned a few times, there’s lot of breaking changes in the “new DRYML”. In some ways there’s not a huge amount of new functionality, but we really feel it’s much cleaner and more elegant now. I’ll go over the new features in this and probably one or two further posts.

The Hobo Migration Generator
Posted by Tom | July 6, 2007 34 Responses

Right back at the start of the Hobo project we made writing migrations a little easier. We made it so you didn’t have to write the word “column” quite so many times.

create_table "users" do |t|
  t.column :name, :string
end

Became:

create_table "users" do |t|
  t.string :name
end

A pretty small contribution in the scheme of things, but kinda handy, and it made it into core Rails (by a circuitous route) which was nice.

Somehow though, it wasn’t good enough. It was quicker, but it wasn’t Hobo Quick. Don’t you always get the feeling that writing migrations is kinda mechanical? Especially those tedious down migrations. Don’t you wish you never had to write another migration again? I know I do. Or did, I should say.

Announcing the Hobo Migration Generator.