How do migrations affect the schema.rb file?

Question

I am a little confused how migrations affect schema.rb file?

For example if I write a migration to rename a table column and run that migratin and even do a schema:load rake task too, then when I open my schema.rb file should it automatically be changed to have that new column name? or should I manually change it in there too?

Also my create_table*.rb files that create the original tables. They automatically have a t.timestamp field defined in them that creates those two created_at and updated_at fields in the schema, so if I want to remove those is it enough to just alter the create_table*.rb file and take out t.timestamp from them? and run the migration? or again I should manually alter shcema.rb file too?

So if someone can explain a little bit how there work together would be great.

Answer 1

The schema file is automatically altered when you run migrations. You should never have to manually edit it.

See this Rails Guide for moer information.