Add column to schema before created_at column - ruby

I'm trying to add a column to my table.
Here is my migration file:
class AddEmail < ActiveRecord::Migration
def change
add_column :apps, :email, :string, after: :website
end
end
However, when I run it, the newly created email column goes all the way to the last column after updated_at:
ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20141217210326) do
# These are extensions that must be enabled in order to support this database
enable_extension "plpgsql"
create_table "apps", force: true do |t|
t.string "name"
t.string "iTunes"
t.string "website"
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
t.string "email"
end
end
What I want is for the new email column to go in between the website and created_at column. How do I do that?

Postgres doesn't support the ordering of columns in tables. If you don't have any code in production, just alter the original migration that creates the apps table.

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For rails, is creating the 'ar_internal_metadata' table with a handwritten migration a good idea?

When I run a migration, the 'ar_internal_metadata' table keeps being stripped out of the schema.
create_table 'ar_internal_metadata', primary_key: 'key', force: :cascade do |t|
t.datetime 'created_at', null: false
t.datetime 'updated_at', null: false
t.string 'value'
end
If I were to create the 'ar_internal_metadata' with a manual migration, would it work fine or cause problems?
keeps being stripped out of the schema.
This is expected behaviour:
# activerecord/lib/active_record/schema_dumper.rb
def ignored?(table_name)
[ActiveRecord::Base.schema_migrations_table_name, ActiveRecord::Base.internal_metadata_table_name, ignore_tables].flatten.any? do |ignored|
ignored === remove_prefix_and_suffix(table_name)
end
end

Create SQLite 3 table with foreign key constraint via ActiveRecord migration

Unlike MySQL and Postgres, SQLite doesn't support adding foreign key constraints to an existing table. One therefore can't create a foreign key constraint with add_foreign_key in an ActiveRecord migration.
However, as of 3.6.19, SQLite it does support including foreign key constraints in the CREATE TABLE statement, and it is possible to specify foreign_key: true when defining a reference column in a create_table migration:
class CreateChildren < ActiveRecord::Migration
def change
create_table :children do |t|
t.text :name
t.references :parent, foreign_key: true
end
end
end
However, when I look at the generated schema.rb, this appears to be ignored:
create_table "children", force: :cascade do |t|
t.text "name"
t.integer "parent_id"
end
Is there a technical reason this is impossible, or is it just a missing feature? Is there a workaround?

SQLite3::SQLException: duplicate column name: User_id: ALTER TABLE "comments" ADD "User_id" integer/

I ran the command
rails g migration AddUser_idToComments User_id:string
and then I figured out that User_id should be an integer and so I ran
rails g migration AddUser_idToComments User_id:integer --force thinking that it would overwrite the initial command.
But now, I'm getting this error:
```
louismorin$ rake db:migrate
== 20140910155248 AddIndexToComments: migrating ===============================
-- add_column(:comments, :Index, :string)
-> 0.0069s
== 20140910155248 AddIndexToComments: migrated (0.0070s) ======================
== 20140910181022 AddUserIdToComments: migrating ==============================
-- add_column(:comments, :User_id, :integer)
rake aborted!
StandardError: An error has occurred, this and all later migrations canceled:
SQLite3::SQLException: duplicate column name: User_id: ALTER TABLE "comments" ADD "User_id" integer/Users/louismorin/code/CP299/db/migrate/20140910181022_add_user_id_to_comments.rb:3:in change'
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: SQLite3::SQLException: duplicate column name: User_id: ALTER TABLE "comments" ADD "User_id" integer
/Users/louismorin/code/CP299/db/migrate/20140910181022_add_user_id_to_comments.rb:3:inchange'
SQLite3::SQLException: duplicate column name: User_id
/Users/louismorin/code/CP299/db/migrate/20140910181022_add_user_id_to_comments.rb:3:in `change'
Tasks: TOP => db:migrate
(See full trace by running task with --trace)
```
Here's my schema.rb file
```
ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20140910155210) do
create_table "comments", force: true do |t|
t.text "body"
t.integer "post_id"
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
t.string "User_Id"
end
add_index "comments", ["post_id"], name: "index_comments_on_post_id"
create_table "posts", force: true do |t|
t.string "title"
t.text "body"
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
t.integer "user_id"
t.integer "topic_id"
end
add_index "posts", ["topic_id"], name: "index_posts_on_topic_id"
add_index "posts", ["user_id"], name: "index_posts_on_user_id"
create_table "topics", force: true do |t|
t.string "name"
t.boolean "public", default: true
t.text "description"
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
end
create_table "users", force: true do |t|
t.string "email", default: "", null: false
t.string "encrypted_password", default: "", null: false
t.string "reset_password_token"
t.datetime "reset_password_sent_at"
t.datetime "remember_created_at"
t.integer "sign_in_count", default: 0, null: false
t.datetime "current_sign_in_at"
t.datetime "last_sign_in_at"
t.string "current_sign_in_ip"
t.string "last_sign_in_ip"
t.string "confirmation_token"
t.datetime "confirmed_at"
t.datetime "confirmation_sent_at"
t.string "unconfirmed_email"
t.string "name"
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
t.string "role"
t.string "avatar"
t.string "Image"
end
add_index "users", ["email"], name: "index_users_on_email", unique: true
add_index "users", ["reset_password_token"], name: "index_users_on_reset_password_token", unique: true
end
```
Because of the error, your second migration -- changing the column type -- didn't run. If that migration was only intended to change that one column, we could then delete the file it generated and try again.
If you don't yet have any data in that column that you care about, that's pretty easy:
rails g migration ChangeTypeOfUserIdOnComments
This migration name isn't special. Might as well have been DoWhateverIWant
Then, edit the created migration's change method to something like this:
def change
remove_column :comments, :user_id
add_column :comments, :user_id, :integer
add_index :comments, :user_id
end
When you then run your un-run migrations rake db:migrate, it shouldn't trip up on the one which errored (because we deleted it), and then it should run this one, which removes the column and adds it back with the correct type.
If you DO have data you want to save, the procedure is more complicated. Your change method would have to grab the current user_id's for each comment, and then assign them to the new comments when we create the new column. The below should hopefully work:
def change
user_ids = {}
Comment.find_each{ |c| user_ids[c.id] = c.user_id.to_i }
remove_column :comments, :user_id
add_column :comments, :user_id, :integer
add_index :comments, :user_id
Comment.each{ |c| c.update_attribute(:user_id, user_ids[c.id])
end
Also note that the names of the migration in the command are generally all CamelCase or all snake_case. So: AddColumnUserIdToComments or add_column_user_id_to_comments. Naming as you did might cause problems.
** EDIT **
Modify a Column's Type in sqlite3
It appears that SQLite has NO good way to modify/drop a column. I'd suggest either:
Dropping and restarting a SQLITe table
Drop the table, drop the original user_id migration and the line in the new one about removing the old user_id column, and then create a new table with the new migrations. Should work fine if you don't care about your data
Switching to Postgres, which is the database Heroku uses.
It's probably a good idea (because you want your production and local databases to behave identically), but can be bug-prone to switch to.
Look here for guidance -- Change from SQLite to PostgreSQL in a fresh Rails project

rails joins with module name

Here is how to join two models
User.where(:id => 1).joins(:posts)
but how to join two models with module/namspace
#schedules= Swimming::Classschedule.joins(:Swimming::Slot).where(:date => #date)
seems not working properly (with error message)
:Swimming is not a class/module
UPDATE
I have updated to
#schedules= Swimming::Classschedule.joins(:swimming_slots).where(:date => #date)
and I do have this table
create_table :swimming_classschedules do |t|
t.integer :slot_id
t.integer :coach_id
t.integer :level_id
t.string :note
t.timestamps
end
create_table :swimming_slots do |t|
t.string :date
t.string :start
t.string :end
t.timestamps
end
Howcome I got this error
Association named 'swimming_slots' was not found; perhaps you misspelled it?
update 2
add this line to Swimming::Classschedule module
belongs_to :swimming_slots ,:class_name=>'Swimming::Slot',:foreign_key => "slot_id"
and
change joins to
#schedules= Swimming::Classschedule.joins(:swimming_slots).where(:swimming_slots =>{:date => #date})
Now it works
you pass the association name to joins. for example, if you have an association like
has_many :swimming_slots, class_name: 'Swimming::Classschedule'
then you pass swimming_slots and rails will do the joins for you.
User.joins(:swimming_slots)
UPDATE:
if slot_id refers to a record in the swimming_slots table, you should have something like
belongs_to :slot, class_name: 'Swimming::Slot'
in your class schedule model. If you have that, you should be able to do
Swimming::Classschedule.joins(:slot)

Activerecord Rails 3 string limits not working

I have a rails migration and I am most probably doing something incorrect here but
the migration is ---
class CreateStates < ActiveRecord::Migration
def change
create_table :states do |t|
t.string :state_legacy_id
t.string :name, :length => 20
t.string :abbreviation, :length => 2
t.timestamps
end
add_index :states, :id
end
end
But when i go into mysql database and look at the table the name table as well as the abbreviation table have a length of varchar/ 255 What is about my limit statement that is incorrect.
I have tried both with and without quotes, so :limit => 20 and :limit => "20" both product tables with varchar 255.
Any suggestions will be welcome.
Thanks,
i believe it's called limit - not length
e.g. :limit => 2

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