Droptable Rails - Ruby

Introduction

Droptable Rails is a Ruby gem that provides a simple way to drop database tables in Ruby on Rails applications. It allows developers to easily drop tables in a Rails application without having to manually delete them from the database.

Installation

To install Droptable Rails, simply add it to your Gemfile:

gem 'droptable_rails'

Then run bundle install to install the gem.

Usage

Once Droptable Rails has been installed, dropping tables is incredibly simple. Droptable Rails provides a generator that creates drop_table migration files.

To create a new drop_table migration, simply run:

rails generate droptable MyTable

This creates a new migration file in the db/migrate directory that drops the table my_table. You can then run the migration as usual:

rake db:migrate

Configuration

By default, Droptable Rails will only drop tables if the Rails environment is set to development. To configure Droptable Rails to drop tables in other environments, you can specify the environments in the config/environments/development.rb file:

DroptableRails.environment = [:development, :staging]

In this example, tables will be dropped in both development and staging environments.

Conclusion

Droptable Rails is a simple and efficient way to drop database tables in Ruby on Rails applications. With just a few simple commands, developers can easily drop tables without having to manually delete them from the database.