Being newer to Ruby on Rails and while I have a fair understanding of certain areas, I am still learning. The one area I have difficulty is migrations/databases and I fear I may have had a terrible mistake.
I am currently working on building a blog and recently added a comments section. My next project was to have friendly URLs (using the friendly_id gem) and when I needed to create a new column for slugs, it seemed to already exist (from trying at a previous time I suppose).
Anyway, I tried to reset to an older commit but I know now (unless I am mistaken) that it has no affect on migrations? After some research I tried to rollback my database to undo whatever happened with the slugs. Ultimately, I went too far back that the only database I had was for my blog posts (and nothing for the users and comments).
I have since done a rake db:migrate and everything has been generated again but the content (via the localhost) was removed. I don't mind that because the content I have on my localhost does not have everything my live site does (http://www.joedayvie.com), granted its not much there either.
Anyway, I am really lost at this point and concerned. If I git push heroku master in the console will my content be removed or will this happen when I update the migrations onto heroku? Is there anything I can do to revert prior to this whole mess happening?
I apologize for seeming quite confused (but I am 100% self taught and lost). I greatly appreciate any information anyone may be able to provide me.
Thank you so much for reading!
Joe
PS: Of course if it's possible that this may not affect my website at all, please let me know. I just want to know more information before going further - Thank you! =)
