3 days ago, Edge was patched to add a nicer syntax to our dear migrations.

Instead of doing:

create_table :people do |t|
t.column :name, :string
t.column :age, :integer
end
You can now do:
create_table :people do |t|
t.name :string
t.age :integer
end

While this is great, I found out that someone came up with an even nicer way of creating your migration, actually, a sexier way of doing migrations, and we all like sexy, don’t we? Otherwise we would not use Rails, would we?

Anyway thanks to this new plugin, your old Migration:

class UpdateYourFamily < ActiveRecord::Migration
  create_table :updates do |t|
    t.column :user_id,  :integer
    t.column :group_id, :integer
    t.column :body,     :text
    t.column :type,     :string

    t.column :created_at, :datetime
    t.column :updated_at, :datetime
  end

  def self.down
    drop_table :updates
  end
end

can look sexier than ever:
class UpdateYourFamily < ActiveRecord::Migration
create_table :updates do
foreign_key :user
foreign_key :group

    text   :body
    string :type

    timestamps!
  end

  def self.down
    drop_table :updates
  end
end

Note that I didn’t test the code above and the self.up method seems to be missing, for more information, check the official post to give it a try:
./script/plugin install svn://errtheblog.com/svn/plugins/sexy_migrations