An interesting topic about CakePHP migration support was raised in the CakePHP discussion group recently. Dardo Sordi wrote a compelling and comprehensive argument in favor of not using migrations in favor of CakePHP’s built in Schema tool. He provided an excellent overview of the tool and a suggested workflow for how he currently uses it in his work.
I decided to give the recent Symfony 1.1.0 RC1 a try on my macbook. Here are the steps I took to get it working.