Where can I find a list of data types that can be used in Ruby on Rails 4? Such as
text
string
integer
float
date
I keep learning about new ones and I'd love to have a list I could easily refer to.
Here are all the Rails 4 (ActiveRecord migration) datatypes:
:binary
:boolean
:date
:datetime
:decimal
:float
:integer
:bigint
:primary_key
:references
:string
:text
:time
:timestamp
Source: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/SchemaStatements.html#method-i-add_column
These are the same as with Rails 3.
If you use PostgreSQL, you can also take advantage of these:
:hstore
:json
:jsonb
:array
:cidr_address
:ip_address
:mac_address
They are stored as strings if you run your app with a not-PostgreSQL database.
Edit, 2016-Sep-19:
There's a lot more postgres specific datatypes in Rails 4 and even more in Rails 5.
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