Passing additional parameters to Rails Generate Model?

Question

I\'m new to Ruby and Rails and I\'m running Rails 3 on Ruby 1.9.2.

I want to create a model, so I looked at the documentation to get the table definition that I want, bu

Answer 1

Yes you do have to manually edit the migration file for that. The generator just offers a starting point, it does not do everything.

Doing this in the migration file is very easy anyway.

create_table :articles do |t|
  t.string :title, :null => false
  t.text   :details, :limit => 3000, :null => false
end