Good point Mohamed -- thanks for noticing that! And thanks for the encouragement Rodrigo and Austin.
On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 8:58:01 AM UTC-6, Mohamed Wael Khobalatte wrote: > > Sounds good. Keep in mind that you could potentially be dealing with > dynamic values (such as Date, Time, and co) and also binary data, ltrees, > and so on. Ideally you want to cover all these types, which is prehaps why > this was not done in the first place. > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Austin Story <lonnie...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I like it too. Looks like it would be an easy change as well. >> >> On Monday, December 1, 2014 4:18:47 PM UTC-6, Alex Soble wrote: >>> >>> Hi Rails core team, >>> >>> I've been mulling over an idea for a bit of new syntax, want to hear >>> what you think about it. >>> >>> Two of the most common things I do as a developer when generating a new >>> migration are (1) add defaults to help avoid nil errors and (2) add indices >>> to attributes like foreign keys for performance. The migration generator >>> comes with nice syntax that makes adding indices easy: >>> >>> $ bin/rails generate migration AddPartNumberToProducts part_number: >>> string:index >>> >>> (from http://guides.rubyonrails.org/migrations. >>> html#creating-a-standalone-migration) >>> >>> But there's no corresponding syntax for adding defaults. You generate >>> the migration, find the generated file, add defaults by hand and then run >>> the migration. What about a way to add defaults to new migrations from the >>> command line? Could look like this: >>> >>> rails g migration AddGearsToBicycles gears:integer[default:3] >>> >>> Or in a new model: >>> >>> rails g model Bicycle mileage:integer[default:0] gears:integer[default:3 >>> ] >>> >>> Improvements or suggestions on the proposed syntax? Any feedback would >>> be much appreciated! Thanks everyone. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rubyonrails-co...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Mohamed Wael Khobalatte > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
