Ruby On Rails - PostgreSQL Foreign Keys

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        To utilise foreign keys in my database while still using the super tidy Rails migrations, I created these migration helpers to CREATE and DROP foreign keys.  NOTE: this was written for a PostgreSQL database so it will likely not work on other DBs.

  def foreign_key(from_table, from_column, to_table)
    constraint_name = "fk_#{from_table}_#{from_column}"
    
    execute %{ALTER TABLE #{from_table}
              ADD CONSTRAINT #{constraint_name}
              FOREIGN KEY (#{from_column})
              REFERENCES #{to_table}(id)}
  end
  
  def drop_foreign_key(from_table, from_column, to_table)
    constraint_name = "fk_#{from_table}_#{from_column}"
    
    execute %{ALTER TABLE #{from_table}
              DROP CONSTRAINT #{constraint_name}}
  end

Tags:
• Migrations
• PostgreSQL
• Rails