Added short-hand declaration style to migrations (inspiration from Sexy...

Added short-hand declaration style to migrations (inspiration from Sexy Migrations, http://errtheblog.com/post/2381) [DHH] Updated resource_scaffold and model generators to use short-hand style migrations [DHH]

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@6667 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

activerecord/CHANGELOG

 *SVN*
 
-* Use association name for the wrapper element when using .to_xml.  Previous behaviour lead to non-deterministic situations with STI and polymorphic associations. [Koz, jstrachan]
+* Added short-hand declaration style to migrations (inspiration from Sexy Migrations, http://errtheblog.com/post/2381) [DHH]. Example:
+
+    create_table "products" do |t|
+      t.column "shop_id",    :integer
+      t.column "creator_id", :integer
+      t.column "name",       :string,   :default => "Untitled"
+      t.column "value",      :string,   :default => "Untitled"
+      t.column "created_at", :datetime
+      t.column "updated_at", :datetime
+    end
+  
+  ...can now be written as:
+  
+    create_table :products do |t|
+      t.integer :shop_id, :creator_id
+      t.string  :name, :value, :default => "Untitled"
+      t.timestamps
+    end
+    
+  Note: Schema dumping still happens in the old style -- someone care to update it?
+
+* Use association name for the wrapper element when using .to_xml.  Previous behavior lead to non-deterministic situations with STI and polymorphic associations. [Koz, jstrachan]
 
 * Improve performance of calling .create on has_many :through associations. [evan]
 

activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb

@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ def [](name)
       #
       # This method returns <tt>self</tt>.
       #
-      # ===== Examples
+      # == Examples
       #  # Assuming td is an instance of TableDefinition
       #  td.column(:granted, :boolean)
       #    #=> granted BOOLEAN
@@ -322,6 +322,34 @@ def [](name)
       #  # probably wouldn't hurt to include it.
       #  def.column(:huge_integer, :decimal, :precision => 30)
       #    #=> huge_integer DECIMAL(30)
+      #
+      # == Short-hand examples
+      #
+      # Instead of calling column directly, you can also work with the short-hand definitions for the default types.
+      # They use the type as the method name instead of as a parameter and allow for multiple columns to be defined
+      # in a single statement.
+      #
+      # What can be written like this with the regular calls to column:
+      #
+      #   create_table "products", :force => true do |t|
+      #     t.column "shop_id",    :integer
+      #     t.column "creator_id", :integer
+      #     t.column "name",       :string,   :default => "Untitled"
+      #     t.column "value",      :string,   :default => "Untitled"
+      #     t.column "created_at", :datetime
+      #     t.column "updated_at", :datetime
+      #   end
+      #
+      # Can also be written as follows using the short-hand:
+      #
+      #   create_table :products do |t|
+      #     t.integer :shop_id, :creator_id
+      #     t.string  :name, :value, :default => "Untitled"
+      #     t.timestamps
+      #   end
+      #
+      # There's a short-hand method for each of the type values declared at the top. And then there's 
+      # TableDefinition#timestamps that'll add created_at and updated_at as datetimes.
       def column(name, type, options = {})
         column = self[name] || ColumnDefinition.new(@base, name, type)
         column.limit = options[:limit] || native[type.to_sym][:limit] if options[:limit] or native[type.to_sym]
@@ -333,6 +361,22 @@ def column(name, type, options = {})
         self
       end
 
+      %w( string text integer float decimal datetime timestamp time date binary boolean ).each do |column_type|
+        class_eval <<-EOV
+          def #{column_type}(*args)
+            options = args.last.is_a?(Hash) ? args.pop : {}
+            column_names = args
+            
+            column_names.each { |name| column(name, '#{column_type}', options) }
+          end
+        EOV
+      end
+      
+      def timestamps
+        column(:created_at, :datetime)
+        column(:updated_at, :datetime)
+      end
+
       # Returns a String whose contents are the column definitions
       # concatenated together.  This string can then be pre and appended to
       # to generate the final SQL to create the table.

railties/CHANGELOG

 *SVN*
 
+* Updated resource_scaffold and model generators to use short-hand style migrations [DHH]
+
 * Updated initializer to only load #{RAILS_ENV}.rb once. Added deprecation warning for config.breakpoint_server. [Nicholas Seckar]
 
 * Removed breakpointer and Binding.of_caller in favor of relying on ruby-debug by Kent Sibilev since the breakpointer has been broken since Ruby 1.8.4 and will not be coming back [DHH]

railties/lib/rails_generator/generators/components/model/templates/migration.rb

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ class <%= migration_name %> < ActiveRecord::Migration
   def self.up
     create_table :<%= table_name %> do |t|
 <% for attribute in attributes -%>
-      t.column :<%= attribute.name %>, :<%= attribute.type %>
+      t.<%= attribute.type %> :<%= attribute.name %>
 <% end -%>
     end
   end

railties/lib/rails_generator/generators/components/scaffold_resource/templates/migration.rb

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ class <%= migration_name %> < ActiveRecord::Migration
   def self.up
     create_table :<%= table_name %> do |t|
 <% for attribute in attributes -%>
-      t.column :<%= attribute.name %>, :<%= attribute.type %>
+      t.<%= attribute.type %> :<%= attribute.name %>
 <% end -%>
     end
   end