Commands

In the following, we will introduce you into the basic commands you need to use db-migrate and unleash its power.

For a full list of the commands please view the command specification.

up

The up command executes the migrations of your currently configured migrations directory. More specific the up migrations are being called.

As default it does this for all migrations within the first scope of your migrations directory. To limit the number of executed migrations you can execute:

db-migrate up -c 5

This will execute 5 migrations, but you can be also more specific. To execute one migration by its name you can pass the name like the following:

db-migrate up 20150207135259-myFancyMigration

down

The down command executes the migrations of your currently configured migrations directory. More specific the down migrations are being called.

Down migrations are called in reverse order in which the up migrations previously were executed.

As default it does this for all migrations within the first scope of your migrations directory. Also default is that down will only migrate the last executed migration. To execute more then one down migration you can execute:

db-migrate down -c 5

If you want to let db-migrate execute all down migrations you can also call:

db-migrate reset

reset

The reset command is a shortcut to execute all down migrations and literally reset all migrations which where currently done. The reset command also executes by default only the first scope

create

The create command creates templates for you, there are several options for this. This is useful if you start a new migration, thus you get a proper formatted filename and a boilerplate. Thanks to this, you can keep concentrating on the important part: creating a migration.

For example this commands:

db-migrate create migrationname

Creates a default migration with the name migrationname in your configured migrations directory.

db-migrate create anothermigration --coffee-file

Creates a coffee script migration with the name anothermigration in your configured migrations directory.

db-migrate create anothermigration --sql-file

Creates a migration that loads sql file with the name anothermigration in your configured migrations directory. This is useful if you are transitioning from not using migrations. Another way to get started with migrations, with an already existing database is to use another project from wzrdtales:

umigrate

Umigrate is a tool that can generate migrations from your schema and is also able to generate only the differences of two databases. Currently it only supports MariaDB and thus also mysql.

db

db:create

The db:create command creates a database using your current configuration.

db-migrate db:create testDB

This command would create a database named testDB.

db:drop

The db:drop command drops a database using your current configuration.

db-migrate db:drop testDB

This command would drop a database named testDB.

Scoping

Additional you can use scoping in db-migrate.

So what does this mean?

If you enter any command from above with a doublepoint and the name of your scope, like the following:

db-migrate up:test

Then db-migrate will only execute all migrations in the "test" scope. So where exactly are the scopes.

We assume you have configured your migrations directory to the directory "migrations". In this case the scope "test" has the following path:

migrations/test/

If you don't enter a scope, by default only the migrations within the migrations directory itself will be executed. Now that we have entered the scope "test" all migrations within migrations/test will be executed.

The scopes can be used with all basic commands, such as:

db-migrate down:test
db-migrate reset:test
db-migrate create:test

If you want to execute all existent scopes, you can execute the following command:

db-migrate up:all

all is a keyword in db-migrate and can thus not be used as scope name. Instead the all scope executes all scopes that exist in your migrations directory.

Another feature of scopes are multiple configurations. See the point below.

Scope Configuration

You can also configure the scope to specify a sub configuration. Currently you can only define database and schema within this config. The file should be named 'config.json' and placed in scope subfolder, e.g.:

migrations/tests/config.json

This config file is used to override the database or schema setting defined in database.json for a given scope. database is used for most databases, except postgres which needs the schema variable.

Note that database or schema must still be defined in the database.json file in order to run db-migrate up:all. The value defined in database.json will be used for any migrations in the default (top-level) scope.

It's currently also not possible to switch the database over this config with postgres.

{
  "database": "test",
  "schema": "test"
}