Phlip wrote:
> Matt Harrison wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Not safe to add columns "manually". Add them to your migrations, rake 
> db:migrate:reset to rebuild your databases, manually test, deploy, and 
> lock down those migrations.
> 
> The deploy script will migrate on the server, so all your existing data 
> don't get erased!
> 

Ok, I'll have a go at that, thanks for clearing that up.

Matt