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Can't use :references in add_column
Reported by Mark A. Richman | May 28th, 2008 @ 07:40 PM
I have a User and an Address model, where User has_one :address. When creating the Address mode, I am planning for a polymorphic association for another model that also has_one :address. I need to use :references in a migration using add_column, just as I would using create_table.
I expected the following to work:
add_column :users, :addressable, :references, :polymorphic => true
here is the error:
== 20080526144501 CreateAddresses: migrating ==================================
-- create_table(:addresses)
-> 0.0040s
-- add_column(:users, :addressable, :references, {:polymorphic=>true})
rake aborted!
Workaround (reversed from schema.rb):
add_column :users, :addressable_id, :integer, :limit => 11
add_column :users, :addressable_type, :string
Thanks,
Mark
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Darragh Curran July 3rd, 2008 @ 11:03 AM
- Tag cleared.
What you think about change_table?
change_table :users do |t|
t.references :addressable, :polymorphic => true
end
calling add column with expectation of having two columns sounds wrong to me - whereas using change table you get the same syntax you would have with create table
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josh October 5th, 2008 @ 03:18 PM
- State changed from new to wontfix
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