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Database migration best practices for Rails

Never ever change data on schema changes! [1]

Use rake tasks to change the data! [1]

This decouples a deployment from completed migrations. Give us control of the data manipulation proccess by encapsulatin it in on place. need to remember to:

1. Run it in one of the ways bellow: a. Add this rake task the deployment script or;

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and dont forget

config.eager_load_paths << Rails.root.join('lib')