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Migration Helper Extensions for Ruby On Rails ActiveRecord

• Git: https://github.com/SixArm/sixarm_ruby_migration_helper_extensions
• Doc: http://sixarm.com/sixarm_ruby_migration_helper_extensions/doc
• Gem: https://rubygems.org/gems/sixarm_ruby_migration_helper_extensions
• Contact: Joel Parker Henderson, joel@sixarm.com
• Project: changes, license, contributing.

Introduction

Ruby On Rails ActiveRecord MigrationHelper extensions

For docs go to http://sixarm.com/sixarm_ruby_migration_helper_extensions/doc

Want to help? We're happy to get pull requests.

Install

Gem

To install this gem in your shell or terminal:

gem install sixarm_ruby_migration_helper_extensions

Gemfile

To add this gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'sixarm_ruby_migration_helper_extensions'

Require

To require the gem in your code:

require 'sixarm_ruby_migration_helper_extensions'

Examples

Migration:

require "sixarm_ruby_migration_helper_extensions"
class CreateItems < ActiveRecord::Migration

  def self.up
     create_table 'items' do |t|
       t.timestamps
       t.name
       t.email
       t.phone
       t.height
       t.weight
       t.latitude
       t.longitude
     end
   end

  def self.down
    drop_table 'items'
  end

end

The result is an item class with fields of the various data types:

item = Item.new
item.name = "Statue Of Liberty"
item.email = "liberty@example.com"
item.phone = "+1-212-363-3200"
item.height = 46.50
item.weight = 204116566
item.latitude = 40.68913
item.longitude = -74.0446
item.save