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drop_table

Ruby on Rails latest stable (v2.3.4) - 1 note - Class: ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::SchemaStatements

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drop_table(table_name, options = {}) public

Drops a table from the database.

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_statements.rb, line 186
      def drop_table(table_name, options = {})
        execute "DROP TABLE #{quote_table_name(table_name)}"
      end

April 8, 2009

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use create table :force => true

if you want to drop a table before creating one in a migration, use the :force => true option of the create_table method

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use create table :force => true