Yes, you need to dump a schema that contains the structure you want. This is also true of rake db:schema:dump.
On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 5:03:41 PM UTC-4, David Escobar wrote: > > I just found this helpful blog post on the best practice for these new > Ecto Mix tasks, so posting here for reference. Thanks. > > https://www.devmynd.com/blog/getting-a-schema-file-from-elixirs-ecto/ > > > On Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 6:26:48 PM UTC-8, David Escobar wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, I come from a Ruby and Rails background, and I'm currently >> using Phoenix with Ecto. >> >> In Rails, we have a Rake task for recreating the entire database schema >> on new systems: >> *rake db:schema:load* >> >> As it says in the auto-generated *schema.rb*, this is better than >> running all existing migrations from scratch as errors may accumulate over >> time, particularly if there are any specific data migrations. Performance >> is also a consideration after a while. >> >> There doesn't seem to be an equivalent way to do this in Ecto. There is >> only *mix ecto.migrate*. Is there an equivalent way of just loading the >> schema as in Rails? Thanks. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-talk/3a183a70-ae9f-40e2-9b83-ba6537b078d9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
