Migration: updating a column

[Eric Yen]

Hi,

Is there a way to "update" a column?

Here's what I mean:
I have a column name "item" in table "products" of type "integer"
Now I want to update the column to have the option ":null => false"

So far, the only way I have found is to remove it and re-add it, but
obviously that is quite dumb.

[Ar Chron]

Have you tried change_column in a migration?

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Migration.html
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[Eric Yen]

Thanks.

I was under the impression that change_column was only for renaming.

[Colin Law]

On 29 July 2010 15:42, Eric Yen <er...@ericyen.com> wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> I was under the impression that change_column was only for renaming.

Please don't top post on this list. Thanks.
rename_column is for renaming, change_column is for changing the
attributes of the col.

Column

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> On Jul 29, 9:19 am, Ar Chron <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>> Have you tried change_column in a migration?
>>
>> http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Migration.html
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