Hey Rhett,

Old behavior was invalid so we've fixed it. You can call auto_migrate!
inside a repository block if you want to migrate repository different
than the default one.

Cheers,
solnic

On Jan 6, 9:30 pm, Rhett Sutphin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The behavior of DataMapper.auto_migrate! with regards to multiple-repository 
> systems changed in DataMapper 1.2. In 1.1, DataMapper.auto_migrate!('A') 
> would drop and recreate tables (etc.) in repo A for all the loaded models. In 
> 1.2, it only drops and recreates tables for models whose default repository 
> is 'A'.
>
> This is an issue for me because I've got an application with multiple repos 
> that I need to all have the same schema. I've been working around it by 
> calling model.auto_migrate!('A') for each model. Unfortunately, while 
> DataMapper.auto_migrate! generates foreign keys, model.auto_migrate! does 
> not. Dm-constraints has code which seems to be for generating FKs from 
> model.auto_migrate!, but it is not working for me. (Even if it were working, 
> I'm not sure it would work for my particular schema -- there are circular 
> relationships in this schema, so there's no model ordering where creating the 
> FKs incrementally with the models would work.)
>
> In any case, I can understand the motivation for the DataMapper.auto_migrate! 
> change in 1.2 (i.e., different repos with different models), but I wonder if 
> the DM team would be open to a patch that restores the old behavior as an 
> option.
>
> Thanks,
> Rhett

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