Command Line Options

Migrates to the the most recent version (the newest migration file)

cake migrate

Migrates to the specified version number.

cake migrate [version]

Example: This will migrate up or down to version 2.

cake migrate 2

Generates a migration file with the given name migration name. Migration name must be alphanumeric, but can include spaces, hyphens and underscores.

cake migrate generate|gen|g [name?]

Example: This will generate a migration file called ‘001_my_first_migration.yml’

cake migrate g my_first_migration

Generates a migration file for the specified table(s). The YAML is generated from the actual database table. If no tables are passed, it generates one single migration file called full_schema.yml using your current database tables.

cake migrate generate|gen|g from db [table2 …?]

Example: This will generate a migration file for each given table name (which must already exist in the DB), and populate the file with the schema found in each table.

cake migrate g from db users groups

Example: This will generate a ‘full_schema.yml’ migration file, containing the schema for all existing tables in your database.

cake migrate g from db

Generates the cake sessions table.

cake migrate generate|gen|g sessions

Generates a migration file that will create a table with the given underscored table_name.

cake migrate generate|gen|g create table_name

Example: This will generate a migration file called ‘001_create_users.yml’ and will attempt to build the default YAML to create a table called ‘users’.

cake migrate g create users

Runs and migrates the full_schema.yml migration file if it exists.

cake migrate from_schema

Drops all tables and resets the current version to 0

cake migrate reset

Migrates down to 0 and back up o the latest version

cake migrate all

Migrates down to the previous current version

cake migrate down

Migrates up from the current to the next version

cake migrate up

Displays the Help

cake migrate help

Append ‘-ds data_source’ to the command if you want to specify the data_source to use from database.php