What is the preferred way to manage schema.rb in git?

Question

I don\'t want to add schema.rb to .gitignore, because I want to be able to load a new database schema from that file. However, keeping it checked

Answer 1

I built a gem to solve this problem.

It sorts columns, index names and foreign keys, removes excess whitespace and runs Rubocop for some formatting to unify the output of your schema.rb file.

https://github.com/jakeonrails/fix-db-schema-conflicts

After you add it to your Gemfile you just run rake db:migrate or rake db:schema:dump like normal.