Rebase Rails migrations in a long running project

Question

In which I mean \"rebasing\" in the dictionary, rather than git definition...

I have a large, long running Rails project that has about 250 migrations, it\'s getting

Answer 1

To automate the merging (or squashing) of migrations, you could use the Squasher gem

Simply install

gem install squasher

And run with a date, and migrations before that date will be merged:

squasher 2016 # => Will merge all migration created before 2016

More details in the README