Model Start-up

Model is database data and ruby model class.

Topics

• Create simple model without any data type
• Create model with type
• datatype
• Delete model
• Migration
• Reset

Create simple model without any data type

rails g model item

To do this, 4 files are generated.

Create model with sub directory

rails g model Products::Lucky

create app/models/products.rb, app/models/products/lucky.rb

Create model with type

rails generate model Country name population:integer

The definition is in migration file

class CreateCountries < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :countries do |t|
      t.string :name
      t.integer :population

      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end

timestamps field exists by default

datatype

This is
ActiveRecord wraps each database type. Actually some database doesn't have a type, other database has. In this case, it does something to cover.

• integer
• primary_key
• decimal
• float
• boolean
• binary
• string
• text
• date
• time
• datetime
• timestamp

Delete model

Same as controller

rails destroy model item

item is model name
All files are deleted which is relevant to

Migration

Migration is to change schema. All migration files are under db/migrate.
These files are executed according to timestamp.
Be careful to handle schema change.

Execute migration

Use rake command

rake db:migrate

Rollback one migration

Only one step

rake db:rollback

Reset

Do create, drop, migrate at the same time

rake db:migrate:reset

Maybe switch back to the initial state.