Adding a column to an existing table in a Rails migration

Question

I have a Users model which needs an :email column (I forgot to add that column during the initial scaffold).

I opened the migration file and added

Answer 1

You can also do this .. rails g migration add_column_to_users email:string

then rake db:migrate also add :email attribute in your user controller ;

for more detail check out http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_migrations.html