db:migrate order in Spree

Question

I'm using spree and created a new payment gateway extension. The problem is, my newly created payment gateway gets created first before the core payment gateway of spree. Here's the error message.

doesn't exist: SHOW FIELDS FROM gateway_options

Answer 1

I've had the same problem. Basically, there's a way to define the order in which extensions are loaded but not when their migrations are ran.

config.extensions = [:all, :site]

More info here.

The way I do it, is simply by renaming the "db" folder of the extensions' migrations needing to be ran later. When the others have ran, I rename it back to its original name and run the migrations again. Dirty, but it works.

There could probably be a way to make a rake task and automate this.