Rails 3 - How do I remove database tables that have been created?

Question

I created 2 models and ran the migrations, attempted some work on each of them and now I would like to start over and approach them differently. I'm new to Rails and have never attempted to delete/remove database tables (apart from rolling them back right after I migrated them).

Thanks!

Answer 1

To drop a table during a migration, you can rails g migration DropUsers

class DropUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def up
    drop_table :users
  end

  def down
    # recreate table logic here
  end
end

You can also drop tables from the Rails console

ActiveRecord::Migration.drop_table(:users)

FYI If you want to remove scaffold-created code, rails destroy scaffold User