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Changeset 8304

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12/05/07 20:20:37 (1 year ago)
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marcel
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Reveal that the type option in migrations can be any supported column type for your database but also include caveat about agnosticism. Closes #7531 [adamwiggins, mikong]

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  • trunk/activerecord/CHANGELOG

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    11*SVN* 
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     3* Reveal that the type option in migrations can be any supported column type for your database but also include caveat about agnosticism. Closes #7531 [adamwiggins, mikong] 
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    35* More complete documentation for find_by_sql. Closes #7912 [fearoffish] 

  • trunk/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_definitions.rb

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    293293 
    294294      # Instantiates a new column for the table. 
    295       # The +type+ parameter must be one of the following values: 
     295      # The +type+ parameter is normally one of the migrations native types, 
     296      # which is one of the following: 
    296297      # <tt>:primary_key</tt>, <tt>:string</tt>, <tt>:text</tt>, 
    297298      # <tt>:integer</tt>, <tt>:float</tt>, <tt>:decimal</tt>, 
    298299      # <tt>:datetime</tt>, <tt>:timestamp</tt>, <tt>:time</tt>, 
    299300      # <tt>:date</tt>, <tt>:binary</tt>, <tt>:boolean</tt>. 
     301      # 
     302      # You may use a type not in this list as long as it is supported by your 
     303      # database (for example, "polygon" in MySQL), but this will not be database 
     304      # agnostic and should usually be avoided. 
    300305      # 
    301306      # Available options are (none of these exists by default):