sqlite3 on rails: create_table using collate nocase

Question

Using rails 4.2.0 with ruby v2.3.0p0

I want to create indexes that are case insensitive since most of my searches are case insensitive and I don\'t want to have to do a

Answer 1

Doesn't look like collation on an index has been merged yet:

https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/18499/files

This PR, adds collation support for columns by the way.

The syntax looks like:

create_table :foo do |t|
  t.string :string_nocase, collation: 'NOCASE'
  t.text :text_rtrim, collation: 'RTRIM'
end

add_column :foo, :title, :string, collation: 'RTRIM'

change_column :foo, :title, :string, collation: 'NOCASE'