Add a reference column migration in Rails 4

Question

A user has many uploads. I want to add a column to the uploads table that references the user. What should the migration look like?

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Answer 1

[Using Rails 5]

Generate migration:

rails generate migration add_user_reference_to_uploads user:references

This will create the migration file:

class AddUserReferenceToUploads < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.1]
  def change
    add_reference :uploads, :user, foreign_key: true
  end
end

Now if you observe the schema file, you will see that the uploads table contains a new field. Something like: t.bigint "user_id" or t.integer "user_id".

Migrate database:

rails db:migrate