Is it a good idea to purge old Rails migration files?

Question

I have been running a big Rails application for over 2 years and, day by day, my ActiveRecord migration folder has been growing up to over 150 files.

There are very

Answer 1

The Rails 4 Way page 177: Sebastian says...

A little-known fact is that you can remove old migration files (while still keeping newer ones) to keep the db/migrate folder to a manageable size. You can move the older migrations to a db/archived_migrations folder or something like that. Once you do trim the size of your migrations folder, use the rake db:reset task to (re-)create your database from db/schema.rb and load the seeds into your current environment.