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You know those sexy migrations you’ve been lusting over? Yeah, well they’re mainstream now. I won’t unnecessarily duplicate here what’s already been written about them – but the gist is that a sexy migrations inspired syntax is now part of Rails.

You can now do:

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create_table "users", :force => true do |t| 
  t.integer :group_id, :employer_id
  t.string :first, :last
  t.timestamps
end

To get integer columns in group_id and employer_id and string columns in first and last. timestamps gets you the magic columns created_at and updated_at.

The list of supported column types are:

• string
• text
• integer
• float
• decimal
• datetime
• timestamp
• time
• date
• binary
• boolean

So spin that Barry White record and lay it down right, sexy’s back.

tags: ruby, rubyonrails