Generating migrations

Using sea-orm, we follow the standard migration-first approach. We recommend using sea-orm-cli to generate migrations and entities.

Migrations

To create a new migration file, navigate to the crates folder and run

backend/crates $ sea-orm-cli migrate generate MIGRATION_NAME

To migrate the database, follow the steps in SETUP.md or for short, run

backend/crates/voting-app $ cargo run

(PostgreSQL is managed automatically by devenv when you enter the shell.)

Entities

Generating entities requires the database to be migrated, so that the entities can be built off the structure of the database. After migrating the database, run either

backend/crates/entity/src $ sea-orm-cli generate entity

or

backend/crates $ sea-orm-cli generate entity -o entity/src