外国人 - 删除外键

Question

I am trying to use mailboxer in my rails 4 app. A problem is arising when i try to deploy the db. The error occurs in creating the mailboxer conversations table, which has dependencies in notifications table.

I am trying to remove the foreign key for notifications conversations.

I created a migration which says:

change_table :notifications do |t|
t.remove_foreign_key :conversations

However, the rake aborts and says a foreign key does not exist.

rake aborted!
An error has occurred, this and all later migrations canceled:

PG::UndefinedObject: ERROR:  constraint "notifications_conversation_id_fk" of relation      "notifications" does not exist

My schema includes: add_foreign_key "notifications", "conversations", name: "notifications_on_conversation_id"

I tried to rake db:migrate:down the original migration that created mailboxer, but also got an error saying 'command not found'.

Can anyone help? Thank you.

Answer 1

The add_foreign_key command in your schema gave your foreign key the name notifications_on_conversation_id . This name is different than the default name that foreigner would normally assign based on the column name, which is notifications_conversation_id_fk . So your remove_foreign_key command must specify the existing foreign key name instead of the column name. Try:

remove_foreign_key :notifications, name: "notifications_on_conversation_id"

Answer 2

# Removes the given foreign key from the table.
# Removes the foreign key on +accounts.branch_id+.
remove_foreign_key :accounts, :branches

# Removes the foreign key on +accounts.owner_id+.
remove_foreign_key :accounts, column: :owner_id

# Removes the foreign key named +special_fk_name+ on the +accounts+ table.
remove_foreign_key :accounts, name: :special_fk_name

Offical doc: http://api.rubyonrails.org/v4.2/classes/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/SchemaStatements.html#method-i-remove_foreign_key

Answer 3

When I ran that I got:

 NoMethodError: undefined method `remove_foreign_key' for #<ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::Table:0x00007faa35e94aa8>
Did you mean?  remove_index

Words of wisdom- never use anything except an id integer for a foreign key. I used a title param while practicing on a fake app and it causes:

ActiveRecord::AssociationTypeMismatch (Company(#70210936585940) expected, got "Company4" which is an instance of String(#70210933923380))