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Parameter "-f" for "rails generate model" does not overwrite migration files

#5526

Synopsis:
The rails g model ... -f option states, "-f, [--force] # Overwrite files that already exist" but migration file is not overwritten if it already exists for the model and results in an error message.

Using:
Rails 3.0.0
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-04-19 patchlevel 253) [i686-darwin10.4.0], MBARI 0x6770, Ruby Enterprise Edition 2010.02

Following these steps:
$ rails new demo
$ cd demo
$ rails g model testmodel
$ rails g model testmodel testfield:string -f

Receive error:
Another migration is already named create_testmodels: /Users//development/demo/db/migrate/20100901231151_create_testmodels.rb

Work around:
Delete migration file before regenerating model.

Reported by Mike Bethany · September 2nd, 2010 @ 12:25 AM

State: committed
Milestone: none
Assigned to: José Valim José Valim
Importance: none

Activity

  1. David Trasbo
    David Trasbo
    • Assigned user set to José Valim

    Here's a patch that makes rails g model and rails g migration remove the colliding migration file if you pass --force to it.

    September 2nd, 2010 @ 03:29 PM

  2. Repository
    Repository
    • State changed from new to committed

    September 18th, 2010 @ 08:22 PM