This seems to have been asked before: rails decimal precision and scale
But when running a change_column
migration for :precision
or :scale
they don't actually affect the schema or database, but db:migrate
runs without errors.
My migration file looks like this:
class ChangePrecisionAndScaleOfPaybackPeriodInTags < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
change_column :tags, :payback_period, :decimal, { :scale => 3, :precision => 10 }
end
def self.down
change_column :tags, :payback_period, :decimal
end
end
But my schema (and the data) remains as:
t.decimal "payback_period"
Anybody else have this issue?
Thanks,
Josh
Had a related (but not same) problem. I was just changing scale, so when changing the :scale you need the full line:
change_column :something, :weight, :decimal, :precision => 10, :scale => 2
omitting :decimal (which it already was) and :precision (which already was 10) will cause the migration to fail.
Does Not Work for SQLite3
For this simple test app that I'm running I have SQLite3 setup. Apparently, SQLite3 doesn't rely on column type declarations and is more dynamic, looking at the column's content instead - as was stumbled upon here:
Modify a Column's Type in sqlite3
I haven't tested it but I'm sure that's why the schema wasn't being changed, because change_column
doesn't translate to anything in SQLite3.
Thanks for the replies guys.
Delete and regenerate db\schema.rb
file.
rake db:schema:dump
A hack, but it should get you where you need to go:
class ChangePrecisionAndScaleOfPaybackPeriodInTags < ActiveRecord::Migration
def self.up
execute "ALTER TABLE tags CHANGE payback_period DECIMAL(3,10)"
end
def self.down
change_column :tags, :payback_period, :decimal
end
end