On Friday, August 24, 2012 10:02:50 AM UTC-7, Marc Cooper wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to perform a migration that adds a column populated with the 
> lower case contents of an existing column.
>
> The following runs, populates the column, but the downcase is discarded:
>
>     add_column :users, :uname, String
>     self[:users].update(:uname => :screen_name.downcase)
>
> So, I'm just using:
>
>     add_column :users, :uname, String
>     self[:users].update(:uname => :screen_name)
>
> and trying to somehow invoke:
>
>     update users set uname = lower(uname)
>
> But I can't figure out how to do this.
>
   self[:users].update(:uname => Sequel.function(:lower, :uname))

or with the core extensions:

  self[:users].update(:uname => :lower.sql_function(:uname))

Jeremy

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