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Create Custom Column types in Rails Migrations

Submitted by admin on Wed, 09/06/2006 - 00:00

The Problem

Your doing migrations for a database and you must specify a column with a database specific type. You've checked all of the ActiveRecord migration options and none fit the bill.

An Example Situation

You must specify bigint or int2vector or polygon for a PostgreSQL database.

The Solution

Here's what you can do to solve the problem of ActiveRecord migration limitations for column types: