Ruby/Rails - Active Record Db Migration to MySQL - timestamp type?

Question

I am using Redmine and when I run a rake db migration the database gets created in mysql ok. My problem is that the date field is wrong. I want it to be a mysql timestam

Answer 1

You can always insert a column with a custom type if you want. The symbol names are automatically converted into whatever ActiveRecord defines, but if you use a plain string it goes in as-is:

t.column :ar_timestamp, :timestamp
t.column :mysql_timestamp, 'timestamp'

What you get is ar_timestamp being the usual DATETIME type where mysql_timestamp is defined as TIMESTAMP.