[Rails] [ANN] DevTower Beta3 Release!

[Tobias Lütke]

Just for the record: Thats absolutely not my experience. Migrations
work very well during all phases of the development if you

  a) Check in often
  b) Make lots of small migrations instead of one big.

tip: Lock a file in the repository when creating a migration until its
checked in. This will give your fellow developers a heads up that they
should wait for you.

> ===== BIG QUESTION =====
>
> What about migrations?
>     migrations are great when you are working with a stable/production
> database
>     and have muiltiple branches. but, we use schema.rb to keep things in
> line early in
>     development before branching and before stability... really good for
> when the database is
>      changingoften and radically. migrations are great for small changes,
> painful for large
>     ones very often.