Inspired by Ruby on Rails' migrations, Migrate provides a way to deal with database schema changes in `SQLAlchemy <http://sqlalchemy.org>`_ projects.

Migrate extends SQLAlchemy to have database changeset handling. It provides a database change repository mechanism which can be used from the command line as well as from inside python code.

Help
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Sphinx documentation is available at the project page `packages.python.org <http://packages.python.org/sqlalchemy-migrate/>`_.

Users and developers can be found at #sqlalchemy-migrate on Freenode IRC network
and at the public users mailing list `migrate-users <http://groups.google.com/group/migrate-users>`_.

New releases and major changes are announced at the public announce
mailing list `migrate-announce <http://groups.google.com/group/migrate-announce>`_
and at the Python package index `sqlalchemy-migrate <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sqlalchemy-migrate>`_.

Homepage is located at `code.google.com <http://code.google.com/p/sqlalchemy-migrate/>`_


Tests and Bugs
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To run automated tests:

- Copy test_db.cfg.tmpl to test_db.cfg
- Edit test_db.cfg with database connection strings suitable for running tests.  (Use empty databases.)
- python setup.py test

Note that `nose <http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/>`_ is required to run migrate's tests. It should be
installed automatically; if not, try "easy_install nose".

Please report any issues with sqlalchemy-migrate to the issue tracker
at `code.google.com issues <http://code.google.com/p/sqlalchemy-migrate/issues/list>`_