Play!: Does Slick's DDL replace Evolutions?

Question

This may be a dumb question but I\'m new to Play! & Slick. While using Slick\'s table.ddl.create I noticed that it doesn\'t create an evolution but the appl

Answer 1

Slick is able to generate DDL for your defined tables it does not contain logic that does what evolutions does.

The play slick plugin on the other hand contains a SlickDDLPlugin that will generate and run DDL evolutions for you when you run your app in non prod-mode (with play run for example) It also dumps out those evolutions in your conf/evolutions directory.

The sources that handles evolutions: https://github.com/freekh/play-slick/blob/master/src/main/scala/play/api/db/slick/plugin/SlickPlugin.scala