I seem to recall that there was a plugin or Rake snippet that would put comments in various Model classes after running a migration? It's a chore to have to look at db/migrate/X when I want to see which fields a given model has.
If not, I'll write one, of course. :)
You may be thinking of the Annotate Models plugin at: http://repo.pragprog.com/svn/Public/plugins/annotate_models/
I believe that does exactly what you describe, although I haven't personally used it in a while, so can't vouch for its behaviour on more recent Rails versions.
Regards, NeilS.
There is a school of thought that suggests you you shouldn't put attribute comments in the model as it breaks the principal of DRY. I won't argue the point. However, one real nice way of identifying attributes of the model is to simply type the Model name when you are in ./script/console
> User
=> User(id: integer, loginname: string, password: string, fullname: string, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime)
I always have ./script/console session open when developing Rails.
A drier approach would be:
script/console
You save two characters :)
Here is what I do for the sake of my fingers
I created useful rails aliases in my .bash_profile file
alias sc="script/console"
alias sr="script/runner"
alias sa="script/about"
alias ss="script/server thin"
So whenever I need to see my user.rb schema model for example, I just type this short command on my Terminal
sr 'p User'