[Rails] Re: Problems migrating from Postgres to MySQL

[Wilson Bilkovich]

On 1/31/06, David Mitchell <monch1962 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Pat,
>
> Actually this was my first chance to use migrations, and it worked
> reasonably well - made things a lot easier.  Following through the
> migrations video made things a lot simpler.
>
> The biggest problem I had was the lack of referential information that
> comes out of rake when there's a problem with the migration code - it
> can be tough to spot a problem when you're trawling through hundreds
> of lines of create_table / t_column statements that all blur together
> after a while...

Yep. I had that same experience.  I now run Jamis Buck's "verbose
migrations" plugin. Very handy.
http://svn.jamisbuck.org/rails-plugins/verbose_migrations/