Schemata is a gem for corralling schema definitions across projects. As we work on new projects a lot of common field requirements come up ( addressess, contact forms, medical forms ) but its rare that the field names are ever implemented the same. Its a minor issue, but a major pet peeve of mine is when 'email_address' is defined as 'email' or 'phone_number' defined as 'phone' (Don't get me started on street_address_1 and all of its relatives ). 

So with schemata you define the fields once and then they are available to use in your migration files.  

gem 'schemata'

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# addressable.rb
module Schemata
  module Schema
      def addressable
        apply_schema :street_address_1, String
        apply_schema :street_address_2, String
        apply_schema :city, String
        apply_schema :state, String
        apply_schema :zip_code, String
        apply_schema :country, String
      end
    
    end
end

#provides your migration file with 
create_table :accounts do |t|
    t.addressable
end

# instead of The Old Way
create_table :accounts do |t|
    t.string "street_address_1"
    t.string "street_address_2"
    t.string "city"
    t.string "state"
    t.string "zip_code"
    t.string "country"
end

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