Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord Migrations Change an existing column’s type
Example
To modify an existing column in Rails with a migration, run the following command:
rails g migration change_column_in_table
This will create a new migration file in db/migration directory (if it doesn’t exist already), which will contain the file prefixed with timestamp and migration file name which contains the below content:
def change
change_column(:table_name, :column_name, :new_type)
end
Rails Guide – Changing Columns
A longer but safer method
The above code prevents the user from ever rolling back the migration. You can avoid this problem by splitting the change method into separate up and down methods:
def up
change_column :my_table, :my_column, :new_type
end
def down
change_column :my_table, :my_column, :old_type
end
