How to Safely Drop Columns in Rails

16-Jul-2026 11
Dropping a column is simple in syntax but risky in production. Between running the migration and restarting the app, the old process still serves traffic with a cached schema, and can cause errors in production. Rails' ignored_columns fixes this by telling ActiveRecord to stop...
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