News: v0.9.9-m2 has been released!
A while back, I wrote to introduce the first incarnation of the Carbon Five Database Migration tools, a simple though powerful framework for applying discrete changes to a database and tracking which changes have been applied to a specific database. It was inspired by Rails’ Migration support.
We’ve made a number of changes in the v0.9.1 release. We adopted some of the improvements found in Rails 2.1 as well as feedback from our users. Here’s an overview of what’s changed:
As you can imagine, some of these changes aren’t backwards compatible. While we’re in pre-release (< v1.0) mode, we feel like it's more important to make the fundamental changes to build a solid foundation than to retain complete backwards compatibility. The release notes give some guidelines for upgrading.
Here’s a quick getting started guide for the maven-db-migration-plugin:
... <build> ... <plugin> <groupId>com.carbonfive</groupId> <artifactId>maven-db-migration-plugin</artifactId> <version>RELEASE</version> <configuration> <url>jdbc:mysql://localhost/myapp_test</url> <username>dev</username> <password>dev</password> </configuration> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>mysql</groupId> <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId> <version>5.1.6</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </plugin> </build> ... <pluginRepositories> <pluginRepository> <id>c5-public-repository</id> <url>http://mvn.carbonfive.com/public</url> </pluginRepository> </pluginRepositories> ...
Lines 29-31 configure the database connection (see the reference for more options).
Lines 35-39 specify the required dependency on our database driver.
Lines 43-48 adds the Carbon Five maven plugin repository.
In src/main/db/migrations, create a script using the format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.sql (e.g. 20080830174515.sql). Example:
CREATE TABLE users ( id INT PRIMARY KEY, email VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, password VARCHAR(255), enabled BOOLEAN DEFAULT 'TRUE' );
$ mvn db-migration:create
The supplied credentials must have the appropriate privileges, of course. If you’re not using MySQL or PostgreSQL, then do this step manually.
$ mvn db-migration:validate
Your migration will be listed as pending and the database as not up-to-date.
$ mvn db-migration:migrate
The pending migration will be applied to the database and logged in the schema_version table.
Check out the google code project page, the release notes and the sample applications.
In the near future, I’m going to look at supporting MS SQL Server and improving the SQL Script Runner. Thanks for all of the feedback and please keep it coming!
Christian
Christian is a software developer, technical lead and agile coach. He's passionate about helping teams find creative ways to make work fun and productive. He's a partner at Carbon Five and serves as the Director of Engineering in the San Francisco office. When not slinging code or playing agile games, you can find him trekking in the Sierras and playing with his daughters.