Edit a Rails scaffold class to add a new field

Question

I've generated a simple Rails 3 class using the scaffold function:

rails generate scaffold Fattura data:date importo:integer descrizione:text

Now I need to add another field in the class Fattura. What is the best way to do that?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 06 '11 at 20:27

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You can create a migration which adds a column:

rails generate migration add_my_column_to_fattura my_column:string
rake db:migrate

answered Mar 06 '11 at 20:27

zetetic

How is this specifying which table to add my_column to? – Lance Fisher Jun 23 '12 at 21:56
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The table name is inferred from the model name, which in turn is inferred from the last part of the migration name (the part after the `to`). – zetetic Jun 24 '12 at 02:08

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