ruby on rails - generate activerecord schema from an existing table

Question

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

I have an existing table that I created with sql and I would like to create a schema from it that would reproduce the table (minus the data)

Answer 1

1. Edit config/database.rb to point to the database you want copied.
2. rake db:schema:dump
3. Create a blank migration
4. Copy the relevant create_table lines from the schema dump and paste it into the migration file
5. Manually insert the migration timestamp into schema_migrations table (this applies to existing setup only as it already has the relevant table)